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I'm pretty sure the education system has required students to sit in place nicely for hours since it first began and girls weren't allowed.
I didn't mean intentionally designed for girls, so maybe I should rephrase it. The education system favors girls' tendencies. Boys more often like to do things and be more physical, so it's not optimal for them to sit in a desk all day reading and writing. Boys can obviously still be intellectual, but they tend to get more restless if they aren't active......according to many experts, and which also aligns with my own experience.
I didn't mean intentionally designed for girls, so maybe I should rephrase it. The education system favors girls' tendencies. Boys more often like to do things and be more physical, so it's not optimal for them to sit in a desk all day reading and writing. Boys can obviously still be intellectual, but they tend to get more restless if they aren't active......according to many experts, and which also aligns with my own experience.
So what you are actually saying is biology is behind it. You just made it sound sexist.
Still has the requirement to sit still and read and write changed since institutional education began and when girls rarely attended school?
I say it's a bit of all three. Boys tend to have more testosterone than girls. Boys are often raised to be more aggressive than girls. They are taught to be tough, that if they don't fight back, they will get crushed. That plays a bigger role than the testosterone. But even girls fight as well. One thing I've noticed growing up was this. Girls were sneakier about things they did. There were also girls who pulled sob stories and got off. I also noticed that if a girl got suspended from school, it had to be something really bad or if it had been subsequent behavior problems. I noticed with boys who misbehaved, there was more urgency to "take action".
Started from a baseline of multiple millions of years of evolution with males of our species as hunter/gatherers and females as home runners/child rearers. This would obviously, for a very long chunk of the time humans have existed, select for aggression in males. It would be more surprising at this stage of human evolution if males were NOT more prone to violence than females, we have only been out of the caves for a few 10's of thousands of years.
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