Actually, segregating education by gender would be the best, since boys and girls learn in different ways. The current education system very much favors girls' way of learning which is why boys are falling behind.
Yes, this is true in part.
But, as is always the case with these sorts of issues, you can not generalise an entire type of people and then act on that generalisation.
Because there will always be people who fall outside the box.
To completely split education in half, where 50% of the student population learns one way and the other 50% another, based only upon their gender at birth is horribly wrong.
You will find plenty of boys who learn better in a manner more similar to that which, for lake of a better term, is considered more 'feminine'. And likewise girls who learn better in a more 'masculine' teaching environment.
If you're going to split people up in education in order to tailor their education to them you have to look at them individually.
A perfect brown townogy, holding on the tailoring motif, is clothing production. You can have either;
- A one-size-fits all suit, made for the average build. It will maybe fit you, not particularly comfortably, and chances are a lot of people won't fit it at all, being either too big or too small in lots of areas.
OR
- A generic off-the-rack suit which is described to fit people of your average size, e.g, Small, Medium, Large, XL, XXL. It will fit you sort of decently, but the arms might not be perfect, or the collar, or the cuffs.
OR
- A custom tailored suit, which has been measured up in every area to fit you. Provided a good tailor has been measuring and tailoring for you, it should fit perfectly in every area.
A custom tailored experience will always be better for you.
If you're going to change the education system then you need to more accurately categorise people and put them in classes with similar people who can all be taught the same way that is best for them. And you need to sit down with students, even test them, to find out these personalities. Not just assume that all the boys will learn best one way and all the girls another.
You're better off leaving it as is, rather than forcibly splitting everyone up in half on a fairly arbitrary division, and alienating plenty of people.
And actually, splitting people up by gender is just the reverse of a feminist concept. Because (and I will acknowledge this as a slippery slope fallacy, since we're all playing that game) it leaves the door open for the system to be manipulated. If all the girls are being taught one way, and all the boys another, then it's all the more easier to stop teaching the girls certain things, or just start teaching the boys certain things.
In the same way that schooling used to be like anywhere from 40-100 years ago, with girls being taught things like home-ec and textiles and cooking, while boys learn maths, science and woodwork. Which definitely creates a labour divide, where boys and girls can't go into certain professions because they've never had the education for it.
