Values from Sport

          The school is a place where students are nurtured to become a responsible and productive member of the society. It provides a complete means of moulding students to become an employee or professional, to the chosen field of endeavour they wish to engage in. The mathematics and science subjects assist students to enhance their logic reasoning, and mathematical maturity, the English subjects polishes verbal and written communications, but what about Physical Education?

            This subject attempts to let the students have holistic and active lifestyle and at the same time learn life from valuing the essence of winning and losing.  Sports make people mentally strong. Success and failure are both parts of sports as well as life. A sportsman knows that there will be times when he will win matches there will also be times when he will lose them. A sportsperson knows how to handle defeat and thus, treats success and failure equally. This is an important life lesson too, which sports can teach a person. Besides this, another importance of sports for children or for adults is that it teaches them how to handle competition, and be fearless when facing the adversaries.

            Children and adolescents ooze with physical energy. When they are involved in sports, their physical energies are used up in a constructive way. Teenage is such an impressionable age, if adolescents are given free time they might get involved in wrong activities or may fall in bad company or may also display anti-social behaviour. Thus, the importance of sports in society is that it keeps adolescents from becoming anti-social elements, who might otherwise disturb the delicate fabric of society.

            Most of us start out playing a sport as a means of fun and recreation. But somewhere along the way, in the midst of all the fun, we realize that sports can often be a metaphor for achieving success in life, because of the lessons it teaches us about life. Sports teach us about being a part of a team, the importance of working together to accomplish a common goal. We learn to shoulder responsibility, and how to cope with defeat and failure. It teaches how to remain focused on a task for the period of time required to achieve it. We learn about consistency and concentration, how to overcome weaknesses, and go beyond our limits.