Co-education is a modern fallacy. For the first time it was adopted in Switzerland, but now even the most backward countries of Asia seem to favor this system. In Western countries like America, France and England, co-education is very popular. In our country too co-education at the colleges’ stages is considered with favor even by our leading educationists and the day is not far when people will be obliged to admit it as an established system.

The supporters of co-education plead in favor of co-education mainly on two grounds; one, economical and the other, social. In the first place, they tell us, co-education is still more necessary in medical, technical and vocational institutions, where it is not possible to maintain separate laboratories for boys and girls.

Moreover, they plead, it is unwise and uneconomical. The supporters of co-education believes that if our young boys and girls are educated together, they will develop a sort of mutual understanding, which may be helpful in their future life as men and women. They also believe that nothing helps social contact between young boys and girls more properly than free mixing, and it is best provided by the system of co-education.

The supporters of co-education also plead that co-education makes boys less coarse and girls less shy, as each sex gains dignity in the eyes of the opposite sex. The girls get rid of their shyness and the boys, of their natural reluctance. Naturally, this situation effects the formation of their character. Thus, they say, co-education broadens the outlook both of the boys and the girls, and enables them to understand the world in a better way.