Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1912 — Why Girls Excel in Study [ARTICLE]

Why Girls Excel in Study

Early Development of Their Perceptive Faculties Required by Their Weaker Physical State. ■ The superiority of female students, both children and adults, has been mentioned and explained hundreds as times, and yet the full pedagogic significance of the fact still seems to be Ignored. The girls in many a coeducational college furnish an over whelming percentage pf the best students, and yet in later years the men take the lead in every one of the lines in which as boys they were so backward. It is all due to the well known fact that in her weaker physical state self-protection has demanded an early development of the perceptive faculties. Age for age, girls perceive understandlngly what boys scarcely notice. The differences between the two sexes are so great that it is unscientific to rises them together, and there is a growing suspicion that each is injured by current co-educational method, the boys unduly stimulated and the girls retarded. In spite of this selfevident conclusion pedagogue# seem bent upon-the impossible task bf miking teeip up with the girisa plan sure to be followed by tSfr reaching bad results. The boys are Mabla to become discouraged, while ths girls are led to embark upon careers

as wage earners in professions tn which failure is inevitable.—American Medicine.