Imagining being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which {{U}}(36) {{/U}} only of members of your own sex, how would you react? Unless there was something {{U}}(37) {{/U}} wrong with yon, you wouldn't be too happy about it, to say the {{U}}(38) {{/U}}. It is all the more surprising therefore that so many parents in the world choose to {{U}}(39) {{/U}} such abnormal conditions on their children.
Any discussion of this topic is {{U}}(40) {{/U}} to question the aims of education.{{U}} (41) {{/U}} children's heads full of knowledge is far from being the most important among them. One of the chief aims of education is to {{U}}(42) {{/U}} 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 {{U}}(43) {{/U}} 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.{{U}} (44) {{/U}} to learn to live together from their earliest years. They are put in a position where they can compare themselves with each other {{U}}(45) {{/U}} In a co-educational school, everything falls into its proper place.{{U}} (46) {{/U}} .