Co-education

Education of boys and girls together is termed as co education. While in some schools and colleges there is separate education of girls and boys. Co-education is a controversial issue, some people are in favor of system, they say that this system is very useful. They give many arguments in its favour. Their main argument is that in poor and backward country like Pakistan it is impossible to

maintain separate institutions. Therefore girls should be allowed to study in co-education. For a progressive society men and women need to know each other. This would be very helpful for them in future life. According to Hadees,


“Acquisition of knowledge is binding on all Muslims (both men and women without any discrimination.)”


Supporters of co-education system are talking in manner if it is only road to heaven. A little thought would expose the hollowness of these arguments. Everyone who has visited even a couple of colleges and schools knows that all of our institutions are frightfully over crowded. The girls schools and colleges too are over-crowded. Hundreds of new educational institutions are needed. It some of these are reserved for girls, it would not cost more to government. If number of girl’s students were small then the consideration of economy would have been partly valid. The second argument is also not valid if young men and women can not understand each other in their homes and families, then they would not be able to do so in the school or college. The ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, said that


“Co-education creates a feeling of comradeship. He advocated teaching of both genders in the same institution without showing any discrimination in imparting education.”


The system of co-education will not raise the standard of education. Temptation of fluttering is strongest than the urgent reading text books co-education will create many problems not only for the students but also for teachers. Temptation does not distinguish between the students and the teacher.






The real reason why some people support co-education is that they like western culture. They want to be more English than English because west has co-education so they must have it. But we have to consider whether our religion, our culture and our circumstances allow us to adopt co-education. I can say that they certainly not allow us to adopt such system.






If co-education is inevitable one would agree to it. But it is not a necessary evil. And there is no reason that we should patronize everything with foreign name. If it is necessary we should adopt it only at elementary level while at secondary level and higher secondary level there should be separate system of education.






According to a survey conducted by Gillani Research foundation, 79% parents do not like co-education, 16% prefer to send their girls to co-educational institutions, 5% gave no response. These results are against system of coeducation because most of the area of Pakistan is rural and the people are still not broad minded and don’t allow their daughters to get education with boys.