Analysis Of With No Boys To Ogle, We Had Time To Learn By Christine Flowers

In the article “With No Boys to Ogle, We Had Time to Learn” by Christine Flowers that was published in Newsweek on October 24, 2005, Flowers discusses the benefits of single-gender schools. Flowers attended an all girls school during her secondary education and continued her single-sex education in college. Flowers claims that this was extremely beneficial for her, and is also beneficial for most educational institutions. Flowers first begins by talking about her own decision to extend her single-sex education into her college years. She claims that having this type of education prevents distractions in a student’s education. Flowers backs this assertion up using two of her own experiences. One experience was her own college education, and the other experience was her teaching career at an all boys school. The problem with Flowers’ claim is that she only based this conclusion off of her own experiences. She did not provide any other sources to support the idea, and she essentially made the hasty generalization that this assumption was true in every situation. It is also worthy to note that her logic behind the educational quality is faulty cause and effect reasoning. Just because Flowers herself had a good experience does not mean that single-sex education was the cause of her

Flowers makes the claim that schools should not be considered places to socialize. She claims that they have other places they can socialize, and they have activities that would aid in this endeavor. Flowers falters in her logic yet again because she fails to support these claims with any evidence to prove what she is advocating for. She doesn’t even use her own experiences to back it up this time. Flowers makes another hasty generalization that every student will have the ability to socialize or be a part of extracurricular activities. Overall, her argument was unsupported, and it lacked logical