The Hellenistic school par excellence was still the school of gymnastics, the practice of athletic sports and the nudity that they required being the most characteristic feature contrasting the Greek way of life with that of the barbarians. There were, at least in sufficiently large cities, several gymnasiums, separately for the different age classes and on occasion…
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Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723-1790): one of the first men to recognize the importance of exercise, he included gymnastics as part of the daily curriculum devoting up to three hours per day to educating the physical.
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P.E. (2002): directed by M. Stark and starring Dave Allen, Jordan Barron, Heather Rivers and Jessica Wiseman. Three 7th grade girls. One P.E. teacher. No contest. Cute and dark at the same time.
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Over their school careers, French children had about 443 hours of PE more than their British counterparts; Swiss children had 379 hours more and German children, 114 hours more. British youngsters received less than two hours a week of PE in secondary schools, compared to more than three hours for those in Austria, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. In France, Germany and the Netherlands, pupils got three hours of PE. In Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Italy and Luxembourg, they had between two and two-and-a-half hours a week. The UK’s average of 90 minutes of PE a week in primary schools was, with Ireland, the lowest in Europe. Children in Switzerland, Portugal, Luxembourg and France had PE for at least three hours.
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Gymnasium (gym): a large room with weights for lifting, horizontal bars and other equipment for exercising the body and increasing strength. From the Greek word "gumnasion" or "gumnazein" meaning to exercise naked. A place where Greek youths exercised.
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Exercise by Steve Key
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Physical Education is an anagram of Psycho lunatic idea
Diet and Exercise is an anagram of I dread existence!
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The Republic: Book III by Socrates
The second part of the guardian's education, gymnastics, is broached when the philosophers have finished their outline of music. Physical education, Socrates asserts, should be governed by the same rigorous temperance as music. No exceptions are made for the ill or the valetudinarian; citizens are to survive only with some small amount of attention from a physician or not at all.
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Health is the vital principle of bliss, / And exercise, of health. (James Thomson)
I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise. (Chauncey Depew)
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. (Mark Twain)
It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking, and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind. (Epictetus)
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well. (James Freeman Clarke)
To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable. (Oscar Wilde)
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. (Wilhelm von Humboldt)
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