Friday, January 24, 2014

Physical Education's Moral Benefits

Physical Education is a perfect way to lead students down the correct moral path. During Physical Education classes students learn how their individual decisions can contribute to their team, which is important for them to be successful in their future endeavors.


Throughout Physical Education classes, students are forced to work together in order to accomplish a goal. Whether it be winning a game or helping get each team member through an obstacle, students are faced with many difficult decisions. Here students must figure out the best way to get through the task, and they each have to ask themselves if they are going to work together in order to help the team or walk down their own path, which will only hurt the team. Students will begin to develop a sense of self awareness and think about how their actions and behaviors are going to affect the rest of their team. In order to be successful in life, students must learn to think less about themselves and more about the success of their team. Physical Education starts to lay this superior moral foundation in each student from a young age.

2 comments:

  1. I agree. You start with Physical Education in Grade school. If you can help tackle the struggle with learning moral values it helps them progress in future ventures. This will help lay down ground work to better them as a person or athlete. The interest in morality spans many and specializations within. Moral developmental psychology research focuses on questions of origins and change in morality across the lifespan.Great work!

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  2. This is interesting and I agrees. Physical education teaches children values that classroom lessons can not teach.. What physical education teaches will stay with a child for the rest of their life and is a great foundation to build on.

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