Any discussion of co-education or segregated education is bound to question the aims of education. Stuffing children’s heads full of knowledge is (1) being foremost among them. One of the chief aims of education is to (2) future citizens with all they require to take their place in adult society. Now adult society is made up of men and women, (3) how can a segregated school possibly offer the right sort of preparation for it Anyone entering adult society after years of (4) can only be in for a shock. A. but B. so C. whereas D. or

A co-educational school offers children nothing less than a true version of society in (5) . Boys and girls are given the (6) to get to know each other, to learn to live together from their earliest years. They are put in a position where they can compare themselves with each other in terms of (7) ability, athletic achievement and many of the extracurricular (8) which are part of school life. What a (9) advantage it is (to give just a small example) to be able to (10) a school play in which the male parts will be taken by boys and the female parts by girls!
But perhaps the greatest (11) of co-education is the healthy attitude to life it encourages. Boys don’t grow up believing that women are (12) creatures, fairy goddesses, more like book (13) to a fairy tale, than human beings. Girls don’t grow up (14) that men are romantic heroes. Years of living together at school dispel (15) of this kind. There are no goddesses with pigtails, (16) voices and inky fingers. There are no romantic heroes with knobbly knees, dirty fingernails and (17) hair. The awkward stage of adolescence brings into sharp (18) some of the physical and emotional problems (19) in growing up. These can better be (20) in a co-educational environment.