About Boys Education
At a conference on boys’ education held in Sydney in July 2003, evidence was presented that boys educated in all-male schools perform better academically and become more sensitive men (Dr Peter West, University of Western Sydney). This partly comes about because boys learn by being active and moving around; this learning style can be the focus of what happens in the classroom in an all-male environment. Additionally, boys educated without the company of girls have greater self-esteem; in a co-educational school, boys feel that they have to “demonstrate their emerging masculinity by gross macho over-reaction” (Dr Bruce Cook, Principal, Southport School, QLD).
Steve Biddulph., the author of several books on boys’ issues including, Raising Boys and Manhood, has stated “studies indicate that boys learn better, take more risks, concentrate better, are more flexible and co-operative, and see learning as a positive, when they are in their own class”.
There is clear evidence that boys experience success in a wide range of activities in a boys’ school to which they would otherwise have more limited access in a co-educational school. In such a school girls take up many of the activities more frequently, particularly in the areas of leadership, debating , mock trials, community service and all aspects of the arts. Boys are often more reluctant to participate in these activities when competing for membership in such groups with girls. Of course, all the participants in these activities in a boys’ school are, by the nature of the school, boys. At Asquith Boys High School we have actively promoted the involvement of the boys in a wide variety of activities in the belief that the journey along the road to an education is at least as important as the destination.
From earlier website - Submitted by Welfare Committee
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