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Physical Education is very much a “get out of it what you put into it” sort of thing, really like any class. And there’s going to be regional/world differences.

Physical Education is very much a “get out of it what you put into it” sort of thing, really like any class. And there’s going to be regional/world differences. It’s also partially there for the student athletes, in order for there to be job infrastructure and education/training. Source: father was a physical educator for 40ish years and is a good man The financial education and time management lines really resonated with me from the parent comment. The problem is that there is not anything resembling equal footing at home. Rich kids, realistically the top 5-10%, are going to get financial education at home and the others will have to learn in the school of hard knocks. I had to learn “tough” lessons about finance because the resources for what I needed to know didn’t exist at home. And I talk to people now who are older about how they prep their kids for the world, and it’s just a classic information imbalance. You could do a lot of good by leveling the playing field here.

ip26 6y ago
get out of it what you put into it Physical Education wasn't my favorite class, but never once did anyone talk about the theory behind developing athletic performance or recruiting the proper muscles for a movement or anything like that. It was just "go run" or "play a game of baseball".
- superhuzza 6y ago
  In my opinion, you can still get a lot out of PE just by doing it even with little instruction. Being made to play basketball will almost certainly develop team-working skills, hand-eye coordination, fitness etc, with no involvement from the teacher. But I agree that there is some lost potential in terms of building a strong knowledge base about fitness and well-being. The paper below suggests there are likely a lot of moderating factors in the benefits of PE. https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1080/02671520701809817 https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1080/02671520701809817
jahewson 6y ago
When 2008 happened I realised that my parent’s generation knows close to nothing about the modern financial system. Meanwhile they prevent my generation from building houses and rob our pensions.

ip26 6y ago

get out of it what you put into it Physical Education wasn't my favorite class, but never once did anyone talk about the theory behind developing athletic performance or recruiting the proper muscles for a movement or anything like that. It was just "go run" or "play a game of baseball".

superhuzza 6y ago
In my opinion, you can still get a lot out of PE just by doing it even with little instruction. Being made to play basketball will almost certainly develop team-working skills, hand-eye coordination, fitness etc, with no involvement from the teacher. But I agree that there is some lost potential in terms of building a strong knowledge base about fitness and well-being. The paper below suggests there are likely a lot of moderating factors in the benefits of PE. https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1080/02671520701809817 https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1080/02671520701809817

jahewson 6y ago

When 2008 happened I realised that my parent’s generation knows close to nothing about the modern financial system. Meanwhile they prevent my generation from building houses and rob our pensions.