ndication of the Rights
of Women_ (1792), contends that "both sexes ought, not only in private
families but in public schools, to be educated together." J. G.
Spurzheim, _Principles of Education_, pp. 272-288 (Edinburgh, 1821),
replies to this argument. In the Board of Education _Special Reports
on Educational Subjects_, vol. vi. (Wyman & Sons, 1900), J. H. Badley,
writing on _The Possibility of Co-education in English Preparatory and
other Secondary Schools_, is strongly in favour. "In co-education ...
half-heartedness means failure. The more completely both sexes can be
brought together upon an equal and natural footing the less the
difficulties grow." In the Board of Education _Special Reports_, vol.
xi. (Wyman & Sons, 1902), Rev. Cecil Grant, writing on _Can American
Education be grafted upon the English Public School System?_ answers
strongly in the affirmative; co-education is recommended on eight
grounds:--(1) Vast economy of expenditure; (2) return to the natural
system; (3) discipline made easier; (4) intellectual stimulus; (5) a
better balance in instruction; (6) improved manners; (7) prevention of
extremes of masculinity or femininity; (8) a safeguard against the
moral danger.

_Co-education: a series of Essays_ (London, 1903), edited by Alice
Woods, is in favour of co-education, nine practical workers recording
their experience; this is one of the best books on the subject. J. H.
Badley's _Co-education after Fifteen: its Value and Difficulties_.
_Child Life_ (London, January, 1906), is candid, judicious and
practical. M. E. Sadler in _Reports on Secondary Education in
Hampshire, Derbyshire and Essex_ (1904, 1905 and 1906 respectively)
gives details of the curriculum of many co-educational secondary
schools. In the U.S. Commissioner of Education _Report for 1903_, vol.
i. pp. 1047-1078, Anna Tolman Smith, writing on _Co-education in the
Schools and Colleges of the United States_, gives an historical review
of the subject with bibliography (compare bibliography in _Report of
U.S. Commissioner of Education for 1900-1901_, pp. 1310-1325). G.
Stanley Hall on _Adolescence, its Psychology and its Relations to
Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and
Education_, vol. ii. chap. xvii., on Adolescent Girls and their
education (New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1904), is strongly against
co-education during adolescence. In W. Rein's