Why is forcing people who don’t care about learning to do so any more moral than forcing nerds who don’t care about sports to do physical exercise? Most people

Why is forcing people who don’t care about learning to do so any more moral than forcing nerds who don’t care about sports to do physical exercise? Most people have no intellectual interests, just as watching sports bores me. Exercise and learning both have pay offs in terms of physical and mental health and earning power respectively, for those who enjoy them and those who don’t. Why is forcing people to read books they don’t care about good enough to warrant the intrusion on their autonomy necessary to get them to do so?