Single-sex education

Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education, is the practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, perhaps in separate buildings or schools.

Quotes

• If the religious leaders have influence [in Iran], they will not permit people's innocent daughters to be under the tutelage of young men at school; they will not permit women to teach at boys' schools and men to teach at girls' schools, with the resulting corruption.
  • Imam Khomeini, Speech number sixteen. Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, World Service (October 26, 1964). Retrieved on 2007-12-05.