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The major benefit of an education is the ability to get along with and understand your fellow man. For a man, your fellow man becomes more and more a woman as you age. Eventually you wind up behind the same locked door every evening with a woman. You are then joined sometimes with your offspring should that occur, and some of them may be women. In each case, you will need an education in women if you are a man in order to be effective.

What good does it do to learn reading, writing and arithmetic without relating the subject to half or more of the population? The idea of limiting the mind of a boy to thoughts of girls at certain hours only by removing the girl from the environment is not realistic, nor vice versa. Raging is the only adjective that suits the relationship in the early years, there is no stopping the moment. Frankly, the relationship between adults is no less raging, just more considered.

Educating a child through college is a series of steps which are hardest at the ages from 13 to 25. The results of removing one from the other during this period in daily life is damaging for a lifetime. Most will want to hook up for a relationship between twenty five and thirty five but they will have no tools to cope once they are involved. The time lost in concentration on reading, writing and arithmetic, if any, is well spent when that moment comes.

Don't try to stop nature. Explain and re-explain when necessary, but let it be the way it will be so that when it is tie-up time, the party will have a reference as to the alternatives between potential partners. Then there is better chance to make a solid partnership when there is knowledge of the possibilities among partners.

The other benefits of education will follow along. Maybe the path will not be the smooth way an educator may prefer, but the result will be more stable, higher achieving adults in my opinion.

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