The answer to this question is that boys and girls indeed do learn different, as proved in the information below but the experiences and lessons a child gains in a Co-Ed school are impossible to miss or recreate, making Co-Education the best option for any child, no matter the gender.

The studies at Girls Day School of Trust, a group of 26 independent schools, say the girls and boys, indeed, learn at a different speed and need to be taught in completely different ways.

For instance, research says the girls learn better in warmer rooms while boys learn better in cooler.

Girls are also said to work better in intimate, cozy and safe environments, where they can do work neatly and not always raise their hands. This genders learning improved in smaller rooms and only learning blocks for about an hour at a time.

Boys are the exact opposite; they like big, brutish type rooms, where they can be loud and jump around. Boys also like to be able to move around their learning area and are said to retain information better in about half an hour chunks.

The learning differences even apply to the people teaching the class. For the Boys, a strict, loud and avoiding eye contact kind of teacher. But a quiet spoken, friendly teacher on a first name bases for the girls.

This is why most parents take pride when enrolling their children into a single gender schooling system. These parents argue the putting a child in a co-ed class room will be a distraction from studies and they prefer the form of education that a single gender school has taken on, where lessons can be optimized for the specific gender of that classroom making the learning experience more special to each student in attendance.

Despite the pros to this side of education, the down falls are impossible to miss. Children need to be put in real life experiences and learn how to deal with problems that just can’t be taught in single sex schools. Things like, the social side of it all. While some single gender schools have certain events where the girls can have school-sanctioned fun with their boy counterparts and the other way around, is that enough to prep children for the real world experience of working with people they can’t choose?

“A strong reason for co-education is that separating children for a number of years means they will not be mixing and learning about each other.‘–  Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.

“There are no overriding advantages for single-sex schools on educational grounds. Studies all over the worlds have failed to detect any major differences.”– Professor Alan Smithers, director of education and employment research at the University of BuckingHam.

Co-education is a concept that many children around the world thrive on.  For both girls and boys, this type of education provides a more down-to-earth way of teaching kids to take their places naturally in the community of men and women. It also helps to break down the misconceptions of each sex and provides an outstanding base for the development of meaningful and lasting relationships in later life. A co-ed school also challenges its students to abandon sexist thoughts and opinions. 

As for me, I think both have solid foot holes that could benefit a child’s life, but I think co-education is the way to go. I think this because in this schooling system the child learns to work and respect the opposite sex. They are also learning how to adjust the way they learn and work with others. This will help later on in life, when that same child is an adult, and has to work and compromise with a business partner.

The children that enroll in this schooling system are learning that in the real world you work with everybody, no matter what gender, and you can’t change who you work with. Running in a co-educational school also teaches students to be comfortable around the opposite sex and learn to respect each other.