Imagining being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which (36) only of members of your own sex, how would you react Unless there was something (37) wrong with yon, you wouldn’t be too happy about it, to say the (38) . It is all the more surprising therefore that so many parents in the world choose to (39) such abnormal conditions on their children. Any discussion of this topic is (40) to question the aims of education. (41) children’s heads full of knowledge is far from being the most important among them. One of the chief aims of education is to (42) future citizens with all they require to take their place in adult society. Now adult society is made up of men and women, so how can a [segregated](隔离的) school possibly offer the right sort of (43) for it Anyone entering adult society after years of segregation can only be in for a shock. A co-educational school offers children nothing less than a small, true version of society. (44) to learn to live together from their earliest years. They are put in a position where they can compare themselves with each other (45) In a co-educational school, everything falls into its proper place. (46) .