ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF CO-EDUCATION

Co-education means that education in which boys and girls sit together in the same classes and read in a common school or college.Co-education is against the segregation of the male and female sexes.It was not encouraged and approved of in the past and is a gift of the modern times.It has originated in India due to western influence. In the past, there were separate schools and colleges for boys and girls .They were not allowed to mix because it was thought so and co- education is prevalent.The system of co-education  has advantages as well as disadvantages.
From the social standpoint co-education is good .Young boys and girls get an opportunity to mix and understand one another. In this way their inhibitions towards the opposite sex and shed and a healthy spirit of working is developed. Someof them choose their good life partners in the process and solve many social problems ;like incompatibility, dowry, etc..
It is disadvantageous since a lot of precious time is wasted by young boys and girls.They get busy in makinng themselves presentable to each other, bunking classes, going to clubs ,pictures , discos and so on .By all this their characters may get spoiled.