Imagine being asked to spend twelve years in a school which consists only of members of your own sex. How would you (36) Unless there was something (37) wrong with you, you wouldn’t be too happy about it. Any discussion of this topic is (38) to question the aims of education. (39) children’s heads full of knowledge is far from being (40) . One of the chief aims of education is to (41) 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 school possibly offer the right sort of (42) for it A co-educational school offers children nothing less than a true (43) of society in miniature. Boys and girls are given the opportunity to get to know each other, to learn to live together from their earliest years. (44) in terms of academic ability, athletic achievement and many of the extra-curricular activities which are part of school life. (45) . Boys don’t grow up believing that women are mysterious creatures. Girls don’t grow up imagining that men are romantic heroes. (46) . They have already had years of experience in coping with many of the problems that face men and women.