ABSTRACT
I have often wondered what converted physical training into physical education. No doubt, historically speaking, this came about, as do most changes in educational institutions, through pressures of a militant group requiring fuller recognition. But the underlying rationale of the change was surely the conviction on the part of some that exercising the body must not be seen merely as a skilful and disciplined business related to a specific end such as physical fitness; rather it is to be seen as related to and contributing 50 other worth-while things in life. To be asked to imagine that one is a leaf is to be given an unusual way of conceiving of what one is doing in the gym. But at least it conveys the impression that one is not just being trained in circumscribed skills.
