Gender-Specific Education Quotes

Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.

I went to an all-girls school in a uniform and always got detention for wearing colorful boxer shorts under my kilt.

I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should be united, both as teachers and pupils, in the same institution seems very desirable, but rarely in early life by a method that removes them from parental watch and care, and the protecting influences of a home.

No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.