{"id":5556,"date":"2010-02-12T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T10:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/02\/bring-back-pe.html"},"modified":"2010-02-12T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T10:07:39","slug":"bring-back-pe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/02\/bring-back-pe.html","title":{"rendered":"Bring Back PE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Walking.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>The Greeks and Romans got this right. Part of education is a healthy body, and if our public schools want to educate students completely (and holistically) they need to bring back a vigorous and education-filled physical education program. Our First Lady’s childhood obesity program is focusing on food and food choices and eating healthy food, and I believe in those things. But there needs to be a vigorous emphasis on exercise as a way of life. <\/b><\/p>\n


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My recommendation: Bring back PE classes for all students in public schools! What do you think?
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Some of you may remember Mortimer Adler: as I recall his story, he refused to take an undergraduate course in swimming and that meant his courses were incomplete when he was admitted to a master’s degree, and before he finished the master’s degree he was admitted to the PhD program, and he finished the latter first … and he became the first American to get a PhD without having any other degree. I recall that he didn’t even get a high school diploma. <\/div>\n
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But one of his legacies was his displeasure of exercise and his criticism of it as a part of a high school curriculum. And this from a man who emphasized reading the classics. Still, Adler was wrong on this one and he hurt American health by repeating his ideas.<\/p>\n
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\nOur daughter, Laura, was influenced profoundly by a high school teacher who taught her students that exercise was nothing something done just in the context of a game or competition, but it was something done for health. Our daughter has been running consistently since high school. Public education matters, and PE needs to be a part of public education — for our country’s health.<\/p>\n

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The point of PE classes is no longer competition and just a game during school, but is instead on educating students in the value of health and the nature of a healthy regimen for life. <\/div>\n
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I make my appeal here to get PE back in all public schools. The sooner the better. (And while I”m at it, bring back shop classes too.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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