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/^t/Only in a co-educational environment can boys and girls grow and develop free from the myths and illusions about the other sex. In pre-schools years children usually listen to fairy tales in which the picture of men and women is far apart from their roles in modern society. Consequently, children acquire these unreal images and accept them as reality. For example, girls imagine that men are romantic heroes on white horses, whose main attributes are strength, valour, and chivalry. Boys, on the other hand, often imagine that women are ethereal creatures whose destiny is the home and the bringing up of children. In a co-educational school boys and girls are faced with reality. Hard as it may be, it is an ideal introduction into the adult world.