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>Dear Lucas, > >Thank you for thinking of me. Most educators, >especially British ones, think that playing team >sports teaches teamwork and kids who don't play are, >as you put it, "not team players". This is said as a >condemnation, something bad, but why? If someone >doesn’t play baseball, does that mean he can't >cooperate on, say, manufacturing an automobile? So >long as the non-team player is not actively sabotaging >the team's effort what's so wrong? Physical education >is supposed to be about education. What's being >taught here? The only thing I have learned in PE is >how to let other, more skilled people do my work for >me. If my team wins a game despite my being on it, we >all get a good grade. If we lose because I was on it, >we all get a bad grade and my teammates blame me and >the only thing I learn is that I am hopeless, so I >might as well give up. Is that something schools >should teach? Someone like me who is "sports >illiterate" needs help in building up his skill set. >If you have a student who can't read do you thrust a >copy of Shakespeare's <i>Hamlet</i> into his hand, >tell him he's playing the part of Yorick and hope >he'll somehow learn to read the rest? > >Maybe I'm wrong here. British educators once (still?) >thought that teaching students Latin and Greek >sharpened their wits like lifting weights builds >muscles, while teaching chemistry and physics was >neglected. And yet the Brits produced Newton, Darwin, >Maxwell, and a host of other great minds, so maybe >teaching team sports... I don't know. > >So in the end I have to deal with the fact that I am >an odd duck, an outsider, not a team player. I'll >live. All I ask is that the rest of you don't condemn >me for being different.
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