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SCIENCE does not give a clear lead on the question of co-education. The physiological and psychological differences between the sexes are not ‘significant’ enough to determine whether the sexes should preferably be educated together or apart. When in 1922 the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education was preparing its valuable report on “Differentiation of the Curriculum for Boys and Girls respectively in Secondary Schools,” it wisely consulted a distinguished medical man, the late Dr. J. G. Adami, on the anatomical and physiological differences between the sexes. Dr. Adami classified those differences under four headings-(a) rate of growth; (b) date of adolescence; (c) anatomical age; and (d) after puberty, the composition of the blood—and gave the Committee all the information available on the interrelationship of the internal secretions and the essential and secondary organs of sex; for, as he said, “obviously it has a profound bearing upon the problem before the Committee.”
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Co-education. Nature 123, 553–555 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123553a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/123553a0