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Physical Education Overview

Physical Education
Physical education is a course that is taken in school to educate about physical
activities and exercises. Students participate in physical activities and learn how
they are beneficial to their bodies.
Physical fitness is when a person has become healthy and more able to respond
to a stimulus to exert him/herself physically due to some small emergency such
as having to run for a bus.
Aim of Physical Education
Aim of physical education, like general education, is to develop human
personality in its totality well planned activity programs. In some words, physical
education aim at the all-round development of the personality of an individual or
wholesome development of human personality and it includes physical, mental,
social, emotional and moral aspects to make an individual a good citizen who is
able to make contribution in process of nation in one’s own way. Thus physical
education means at making an individual physical fit, mentally alert, emotionally
balanced, socially well adjusted, morally true and spiritually uplifted.