Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.
If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.