1. Co education advantages and disadvantages?
Co-education means educating both genders boys and girls together in an institute or in a class.
Co education remained controversial issue in Pakistan. In country like Pakistan there are two
schools of thoughts for co education. One is who are in the favour of co education and want to
introduce in all school and colleges. They say that this system is very useful. They give many
arguments in support of their views. Their main argument is that in a poor and backward country
like Pakistan it is impossible to maintain separate institutions. Therefore, co-education should be
adopted and the existing colleges and schools should be opened to girls. The supporters of coeducation also say that in a progressive society, men and women should come closer. Coeducation would provide an opportunity to the young men and women to understand each other.
This would be very helpful to them in their future life. It would also be good for the progress of
the country. Another argument is that co-education would raise the standard of education,
because it will promote competition among boys and girls. In our society where men and women
must converge and interact while working, it is aberrant to make schools which are not coeducational. Co-educational schools are a stepping stone for all the students who aspire to
contribute to their society in future. To be able to achieve this it is important for them to be
confident around the opposite sex. Co-educational schools prepare students to succeed in postsecondary education where it is inevitable to not interact with the opposite sex. Studies have
shown that having separate schools for girls and boys doesn’t improve their academic skills
therefore the advantages of having co-educational schools surpass the idea of having separate
schools for boys and girls.
But everything has its disadvantages too. Temptation increases toward opposite gender. Coeducation will create many problems not only for the students but also for teachers. Temptation
does not distinguish between the students and the teacher. The real reason why some people
support co-education is that they like western culture. They want to be more English than
English because west has co-education so they must have it.
But we have to consider whether our religion, our culture and our circumstances allow us to
adopt co-education...? I can say that they certainly not allow us to adopt such system. If coeducation is inevitable one would agree to it. But it is not a necessary evil. And there is no reason
that we should patronize everything with foreign name. If it is necessary we should adopt it only
at elementary level while at secondary level and higher secondary level there should be separate
system of education. By adopting this system at secondary and higher secondary level we will
only be able to promote vulgarity in our society.