All about the IBT

    There was a time when camping was considered to be a poor way of spending a holiday; Ok for boy scouts and hard-up students, but hardly the thing for sophisticated, comfort-loving adults. The adults have at last discovered tht the boy scouts have really been on to a good thing all these years. If you go camping, it no longer means that you will be bitten to death by mosquitoes;have to drink brackish coffee;live on corned beef;suffocate or freeze in a sleeping-bag;hump gargantuan weights on your back. Camping has become the great pursuit of motorists the world over.All the discomforts associated with it have been miraculously whisked away. For a modest outlay, you can have an elaborate affair which resembles a portable bungalow, complete with three bedrooms, a living-room,a kitchen and a porch. The portable furniture is light and comfortable; the gas stove brews excellent coffee or grills a tender steak; the refrigerator keeps the beer and ice-cream cold; and as for a good night's rest , well, you literally sleep on air.What more could you want?

    No noder the great rush is on. You see, camping has so much to foffer. You enjoy absolute freedom. You have none of the headaches of advace hotel booking or driving round and round a city at midnight looking for a room. There are no cold hotel breakfasts, no surely staff to tip. For a ludicrously small sum, you can enjoy comforts which few hotels could provide.

    Modern camping sites are well equipped with hot and cold running water and even shops and dance floors!Low-cost holidays make camping an attractive proposition. But abbove all, you enjoy tremendous mobility. If you don't like a place, or if it is too crowded, you can simply get up and go. Conversely, you can stay as long as you like.You're the boss.

     And then there's the sheer fun of it---especially if you have a family. Moping around a stuffy hotel room wondering what they are going to give you for dinner is a tedious business. By comparison, it's so exciting to arrive at a camp site, put up your tent and start getting a meal ready.You are active all the time and you are always close to nature. Imagine yourself beside some clear stream with mountains in the background. Night is falling , everything is peaceful-except for the delightful sound of chops sizzaling in the pan!Camping provides you with a real change for everyday living .You get up earlier, go to bed earlier, develop a hearty appetite. You have enormous opportunity to meet people of various nationalities and to share your pleasures with them.People are so friendly when they are relaxed. How remote the strained world of hotels seems when you are camping!How remote the strained world of hotels seems when you are camping!How cold and unfriendly the formal grettings that are exchanged each day between the residents! For a few precious weeks in the year, you really adopt a completely different way of life. And that's the essence of true recreation and real enjoyment.

    Imagine to be asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society consisted of only the members of your own sex, how would you react,unless there is something definitely wrong with you ,you wouldn't be too happy about it ,to say the least .Is it all the more surprising therefore that so many parents in the world choose to impose such abnormal conditions on their children---conditions which they themselves would not put up with for one minute!

    Any discussion of this topic is bound to question the aims of education. Stuffing children's heads full of knowledge is far from being foremost among them . One of the chief aims of education is to equip the future citizens with all they require to take their place in the adult society. Now adult society is made up of men and women , so how can a segregated school possibly offer the right sort of preparation for it ?Anyone entering the adult society after years of segregation for it ?Anyone entering the adult society after years of segregation can be only in for a shock.

     A co-educational school offers students nothing less than a true version of society in a miniature.Boys and girls are given the opportunity to get to know each other,to learn to live together from their earliest years. They are put in the position where they can compare themselves with each other in the terms of academic  ability ,athletic achievement and many of extra-curricular activities which are parts of the school life.What a practical advantage it is to be able to put up a school play in which the male parts will be taken by boys and the female parts by girls.What nonsense that the segregated school makes the arguments that boys are cleverer than girls or vice versa. When segregates boys and girls are made to feel they are a race apart. Rivalry between sexes is fostered. In a co-educational school ,everything falls into its proper place.

    However the greatest contribution of co-education is the healthy attitute to life it encourages. Boys don't grow up believing that women are mysterious creatures-airy goddesses,more like a book-illustration,than human beings. Girls don't grow up imagining men are romantic heros. Years of living together dispel illusions of this kind. There are no goddesses with freckles,pigtails ,piercing voices and inky fingers.There are no romantic heros with knobbly knees ,dirty fingers and unkempt hair. The awkward stage of adolescence brings into sharp focus some of physical and emotional problems involved in growing up. These can better be overcome in a co-educational environment.The segregated school sometimes provide the right conditions for sexual deviation, this is hardly possible under a co-educational system. When the times come for the pupils to leave school, they are fully prepared to enter the society as well-adjusted adults.They have already had years of experience in coping with many of the problems that face men and women.