Boys' schools reconsidered: good news in troubled times.(Column)

From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: January 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

All boys' schools would relieve a lot of the social tensions that currently cause problems in coed schools. Single-sex schools are also in a better position to address social iniquities. The notion of all boys' schools as havens for misconduct, misogyny, and arrogance are untrue.

The Real mission of independent education is to conceive of good and great schools. Great schools are those that take children as far along their creative, moral, and intellectual range as they can go.

Gender composition must be understood and valued as it promotes this goodness, not for its own sake. Schools ...

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