ABSTRACT

This chapter presents the comments that are taken from the Glamorgan enquiry only. In classifying them they were split up into their component parts, so that one respondent's reply might be entered under one, two or more headings, according to whether he mentioned say 'Social life' and/or 'Educative effect of the sexes' or 'General discipline'. People do not like to appear to be disloyal to the school in which they have been educated, but one woman educated in a girls' school admitted: 'There seems to be a healthier atmosphere among the children. The feminine opponents of co-education and some of its feminine supporters, find two objections, the lack of promotion for women in co-educational schools, and a tendency for girls to be neglected in favour of the boys. In order to give a little variety to the text a selection is made of the more interesting comments by lecturers which are then bound together verbatim as one continuous account.