A. What is Physical Education?

Most of you if not all, have taken Physical Education in the elementary grades and high school perhaps you never required yourself what P.E. is all about. You have been even in the lower grades, yet no one has bothered to explain to you what physical education is all about. Our discussion in this course will confine to the why physical education and hopefully we shall be more knowledgeable about the subject and perhaps be in to understand why it occupies an important place in your studies.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION IS DEFINED AS:

A. Movement Education

B. Physical Education is the process by which changes in the individual are brought about through his movement experiences. Defined by Voltmeter or Esslingen.

C. Physical Education is an integral part of total education process which aims for the physical, mental, social, emotional, moral and spiritual development of the individual through wholesome activities selected as to kind and conducted as to outcome.

Historical literature through the ages is replete with accounts of the importance of physical training. The

Greeks slogan “Men Sana en corpora sano”, has become more than a mere phrase. The slogan means “A

sound mind and a sound body”. Physical Education provides for the participation of the individuals in

varied physical activities, and thus assisted in the developing and maintaining physical fitness.