Educational instruction regarding boys and girls

[Bhakti Vikasa Swami]

Complete separation from the boys is not necessary for girls at such young
age, so I don't require that they must be educated separately, only that
they should live separately. What do they know of boy or girl at such young
age? There was one question by a little girl like Sarasvati to her father:
"Father, when you were young were you a boy or a girl?"
So when they are grown up, at about 10 to 12 years old, then you can make
separate departments for teaching also. But while they are so young,
although they must live in separate boys and girls quarters, they may be
educated sometimes together, there is no such restriction that little girls
should not have association with little boys, not until they are grown up.
All the children should learn to read and write very nicely, and a little
mathematics, so that they will be able to read our books. Cooking, sewing,
things like that do not require schooling, they are learned simply by
association. There is no question of academic education for either boys or
girls--simply a little mathematics and being able to read and write well,
that's all, no universities.
Their higher education they will get from our books, and other things they
will get from experience, like preaching, SKP, etc. Alongside the regular
classes in reading and writing, the other routine programs they should also
participate in, like arati, kirtana, preaching, Sankirtana, like that.
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From a letter by Srila Prabhupada
February 16, 1972