Essay on co-education 150-180 words
1 in favour another in against
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Co-education (also mixed gender education, mixed-sex education, co-ed) refers to the integrated education system, where the education of both boys and girls are arranged in the same environment, mainly at schools, colleges and universities.
Co–education is one of the most common spectacles in the educational system of West. It is now been widely seen in India as well.
As a matter of historical fact, there was co-education in ancient India particularly in the Vedic Age, when woman had a very high status in the society.
In modern times, it means teaching students of all genders together, at various levels, such as:
· At nursery school.
· At school.
· At university.
However, with the passage of time, the system of co- education began to be discouraged in India. During the British rule, however, co-education once again cropped up, but only one out of one thousand Indian girls could get the privilege of studying with boys. Today, of course, co-education is encouraged in our country and number of co-educational institutions is increasing.
Advantages of Co-education
1. Broadens Outlook and Personality: Co-education, apart from providing a better and higher standard of education, also serves as vital force in the development of a girl’s personality. It widens her narrow out-look and broadness her horizon. Modesty and grace are, indeed, two most important qualities in an ideal Indian girl.
2. Bold and smart: Co-education removes shyness from a girl and makes her bold and smart. It creates in the hearts of both the boys as well as girls, an inspiring urge to work together for the advancement and enrichment of the nation and the country. Boys and girls are the two ‘wheels’ of the Chariot of a nation. Both must play their parts equally and ideally to make the ‘Chariot’ run faster and still faster.
3. Respect: when educated together, all students learn respect for each other from an early age.
4. Best learning experience: co-education provides a great learning experience.
6. Lowers cost of education: When both girls and boys get education in a safe environment, the need for separate education institutions for girls would get minimized. Co-education is the proper solution to cut the high cost of maintaining separate staff and educational infrastructure for girls.
8. Uniformity: Everyone gets to experience the same curriculum if they are all educated together. Every child gets the knowledge and wisdom to gain the best knowledge.
9. Social groups: Students’ social groups expand in co-educational environments. Co-education provides opportunity for co-operation (working together) and co-existence (existing together).
Boys and girls, both, will have to put effort and energy, toil and knowledge to re-build the shattered social and economic order of our country and the nation. Co-education is immensely beneficial to the girls of India, rather it is blessing to them. We should not discriminate against any student on any basis.
Co-education is the form of imparting education in which both the girls and the boys study together. This type of education shows that there exists equality among the boys and the girls when education is taken into consideration. They are taught with the same teachers, in one environment where there is no discrimination between them on the basis of gender. Such type of education creates a bond between the students of both the genders which helps them to understand each other well. In this way, they mingle with each other and this also helps in having respect for each other. The conservative people do not appreciate such type of education. They prefer their children to study in all boys or all girls schools.