In China, Xueba is the most popular among school teachers, and students and their parents also sit up and take notice of Xueba. Xueba is a goddess of male gods and is favored by thousands of people, which is unfavorable. In America, what kind of students can walk sideways like crabs? Not the headmaster, but the captain of the football team.
If a student gets a perfect score of 1600 on the SAT and is admitted to Harvard, don't make headlines on the school website. There is no news. But if students will join the sports team in the university, it will be a great honor for the school.
On the homepage of the school website, you can see photos of students shaking hands with future university coaches and related news, and the high school principal will personally meet them. It is possible that this university ranks in the top 50, but the school attaches far more importance to this sports specialty student than the students with full SAT scores. Students with good physical education have great advantages in applying to American high schools.
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Why is physical education so important to American schools?
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It comes down to money.
The coach of American college football team may earn more than the principal. If the team often wins, rich alumni will support the school team, buy tickets to watch the game every year and donate money to the school. The spirit and popularity of the school will also rise. No matter how good the school's olympiad is, it is difficult to stimulate the spirit of the school.
Many parents in China have realized the importance of sports and often ask their children what sports they should practice to help them apply for MGA.
First of all, I declare that in the eyes of Americans, table tennis and badminton are not sports. There are basically no such teams in eastern high schools, so please don't tell the American Admissions Office that "my best sports are table tennis and badminton." There are more and more Chinese in California. Some schools have badminton teams, which I have never met in the east.
Secondly, if students only practice a certain sport for one hour every week, I can be sure that that sport is not a student's specialty, but at most it is just an interest.
Thirdly, it is too late for students to start developing a certain sport until they are 13 or 14 years old. If children want to be good at sports, they need to start from primary school.
Ordinary Americans think that exercise is an activity to exercise personality, not just to keep fit. Every town in the United States has various group sports clubs supported by the government. Since kindergarten, coaches are all fathers. No matter how busy they are, they can always find time to be football coaches or rugby coaches. They were also athletes when they were young.
These unprofessional coaches not only teach players to win, but also teach them:
Teamwork (teamwork)
sporting skills
Endurance and perseverance.
Attitude (attitude)
How to deal with failure after a fiasco on the court?
I know a white dad. Because of his job in an investment bank, he travels between new york and Mexico City every week. No matter how tired he is, he must show up at new york Ice Hockey Hall at six o'clock on Saturday morning to coach his son's ice hockey team.
In places where there are many Asians in the United States, house prices have gone up, but collective sports activities in the town will be reduced. White people move slowly, and it is difficult to find a qualified China father as a coach, which also leads to poor school sports teams and many Asians. Most students can only play the piano, violin and the Olympics.
We often complain that today's children are unwilling to suffer hardships, because their parents have not provided them with opportunities to suffer hardships. In the eyes of Americans, it is a joke to regard the experience of teaching in Guizhou for only one week in high school as proof of suffering.
I think it is necessary for children to suffer in sports activities now.
I know that some children in primary schools in America spend five hours a week on one sport, and many children play two sports at the same time. After junior high school, it is no exaggeration to have physical education for one week 10 hour and 20 hours a week.
Ice hockey practice gets up at five in the morning on weekends, swims for the swimming team before class in the morning, and then returns to the swimming pool for training after class. Only in this way can students be considered to have special skills and get a place in the top high school sports teams. Many American high school students can't keep up with their physical strength after participating in sports team training, and it is difficult to compare with American children.
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Parents often ask which sports have higher gold content, which is helpful for applying for study.
Most team sports have high gold content, but often China's parents prefer individual sports and think that their personal time is well arranged, so they scramble to go swimming, tennis, fencing and golf, and finally compete with Asians.
Ice hockey is very popular in China now. I am a student practicing ice hockey. I started practicing ice hockey at the age of 5 and got up at 6 am on weekends. His application for MGM went smoothly, although the standardization was not high. However, it is far more interesting to talk about the hard work of practicing the ball in the interview than to forget to sleep and memorize words.
Now I help parents plan more sports activities, and parents help their children find their favorite activities, so that children will be willing to get up early to participate in training.
Parents need to choose their favorite activities according to their children's abilities. According to the advice of American children's doctors, children aged 1 1- 14 need at least 1 hour of strenuous physical exercise every day.
At first, parents should not care too much about their sports performance and whether they rank. As their health changes, their performance will also change. What matters is their interest and their parents' persistence.
In fact, the most difficult thing is the persistence of parents. It is much easier to send children to cram school than to practice sports. Memorizing words in an air-conditioned room is much more comfortable than looking like an African refugee in the hot sun. But it is precisely because of this that students who think sports are great have more interesting life stories.
Chinese mothers are busy with caesarean section before September 1, hoping that their children can study early. American parents generally let boys study at night, which is actually related to sports.
Many American private schools set different deadlines for boys' and girls' birthdays when applying for kindergartens. Many boys will study one year later, because the maturity of boys and girls is very different.
If students have strong physical activity ability in the whole grade, have more chances to rank in the school team competition, have high popularity in the school and have deep friendship with teammates, they will naturally gradually have leadership.
There is only one student union president position in the whole school, but every sports team needs a captain. Every year, many parents in China struggle with whether to repeat their studies. Repetition is not only a question of English ability, but also a question of IQ. American schools pay more attention to students' social skills.
Therefore, children in China, especially boys, are not only younger than children in China, but also younger than children in the United States if they don't repeat their studies. Children in China are young (local high school students in the United States are in their twenties), and the atmosphere of speaking in class is not enough, let alone joining sports teams or running for president of the student union.
Professional knowledge of sports is very helpful to Shen Gao, but this is not my original intention of writing this article. I hope more students can enjoy sports, not only to enter the exam, but to have a strong body. Many of my classmates are foodies, but they don't exercise enough.
Many school sports coaches have told me that "China students are easy to quit." When China students encounter challenges, they will soon think of giving up. Physical education not only exercises people's willpower, but also improves students' mental health. Don't spend all your time in cram school, spend an hour doing exercise every day.
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The reason is, of course, the consideration of active campus culture, but more fundamentally, it lies in the importance attached by American society to sports, the special role of sports in talent training, alumni donation and the interest-driven inter-school business competitions, and so on.
Without these specific and subtle background factors, it is impossible to accurately understand the existence of sports talents in American universities.
First of all, the United States is a society that attaches great importance to sports, especially outdoor sports.
People who live in the suburbs usually install at least one basketball basket in the yard. City apartments will also be equipped with fully equipped gyms.
American families like hiking, running and cycling on weekends. In the west, the wide roads will draw special lanes for running and riding, and sweaty athletes can be seen everywhere.
American children spend most of their spare time on the playground. The younger they are, the more they run around the campus. Exercise has become the living habit of ordinary Americans, making them full of energy, optimism and self-confidence.
Contrary to popular belief, American society is not born to attach importance to sports. In fact, just before 150, Americans didn't pay much attention to sports.
At that time, with the rapid advancement of industrialization, the number of "office workers" engaged in financial and management work increased greatly. The prosperity after the Civil War made Americans indulge in the material life of money-loving and extravagant, lost their fighting spirit and could not find the true meaning of life, which led to the continuous decline of people's physique and the gradual disappearance of national spirit.
At that time, the typical American image was: "As night fell, I dragged my tired body home from work. His brain is still working and his bones are falling apart. "
Faced with this universal social crisis, some people of insight are worried. On the one hand, they shout loudly that everyone has the responsibility to exercise and strengthen their physique so that they can shoulder the heavy responsibility of life and improve their quality of life. On the other hand, they start from the school and influence and change people's understanding of sports through education.
With their efforts, the American concept began to change. People gradually realize that sports have irreplaceable value and strength in shaping character, improving realm and purifying soul, and thus establish an enduring view of sports life.
Another factor stems from the top universities in the United States' knowledge and understanding of the special role of sports in talent training.
Those far-sighted presidents believe that top universities should not only focus on students with high test scores and great academic potential, but also cultivate "complete people" who can face, analyze, control and handle complex information and difficult situations if they want to train future leaders to lead the United States and the world.
It is impossible for an exquisite bookworm to be able to cope with the ever-changing challenges in the real world. To some extent, wildness, shrewdness, perseverance and insight into human nature may be more important than academic interest for politics (especially international politics) and business.
1960 in his long report before leaving office, Bander, director of the Admissions Office of Harvard University, declared that a group composed entirely of top academic students is unhealthy and is not conducive to the full and all-round development of students.
This view has profoundly influenced the enrollment and training policies of Harvard and other top universities. In fact, the preference of top American universities for sports can be traced back to Britain, the mother of Anglo-Saxon elite culture.
/kloc-At the end of 0/9, when Cecil Rhodes, a diamond tycoon, established the selection criteria of the famous Rhodes Scholarship in Oxford University, he made it clear that he didn't want a nerd, but wanted a capable scholar who was "interested in masculine outdoor sports and performed well" and was also a bit "cruel".
In order to ensure the realization of this requirement, he even set a specific weight (20%) for the masculine movement and promoted it to the same important position as academics.
The university's understanding of sports is directly influenced by the selection of employees by the employing organization-it has a soft spot for sports talents.
For example, employers who recruit Harvard graduates think that all students who can be admitted to Harvard are smart enough.
In this case, leaders of sports teams or other student groups will be paid more attention, because their experience as leaders makes them more likely to succeed in their future work than students with excellent average scores.
A more extreme example is that a consulting company on Wall Street only targets the captains of all university sports teams when recruiting graduates.
Because it is found that compared with students with high scores, these students have the qualities of perseverance, time management ability and problem-solving ability, which makes them more suitable to stand in the business world. Of course, there are also some school team members who directly enter the professional arena after graduating from college and gradually grow into professional players who have achieved great success.
For example, tiger woods, the most famous golfer in American history, reached the peak of his career from the golf team of Stanford University.
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What role do universities and employers value in students' growth?
The first is the will to go forward, persevere and persevere.
Sports can help students to face the backward and unfavorable situation in fierce confrontation and competition, and gain the experience of adjusting their mentality, calmly coping, making quick decisions and rejuvenating. Sports can also help students get used to the fact that they are against their will ―― they can't win all the games, they can lose the games, but they can't be overwhelmed.
The second is the awareness of obeying the rules.
All sports competitions have clear and fair rules. Participants must act within the rules, and those who violate the rules will be punished. A game will make students deeply understand the rules and the importance of obeying them. The influence of these experiences on students' minds is far greater than the teacher's preaching in class.
The third is the spirit of teamwork.
Especially in the group stage, although individual ability is very important, it is often the team's Qi Xin who decides the final victory. Students will understand from personal experience that victory belongs to the whole team rather than individuals.
This requires athletes to have the spirit of self-dedication, enjoy the joy of success, and take responsibility for failure, not shirk responsibility.
Finally, sports endow people's soul with a magical power, which can embody the spirit of pursuing Excellence in the most general sense. On the field, athletes must try their best to challenge themselves, develop and use their potential and strive to reach the highest level.
These qualities will play a vital role in students' future life and career development, and universities should inject these precious values into the souls of all students.
The third factor is alumni donation.
For top private universities, this is one of the most important weathervanes that affect university enrollment and training policies. Since donations are the main source of income for private universities, universities can't ignore the attitude of alumni, and there is no motivation or reason to refuse their generous donations.
Many alumni who love sports, based on their fond memories of participating in sports activities in college and their deep understanding of sports shaping students' souls and promoting social development, have invested a lot of money in building sports facilities, sponsoring sports competitions and even setting up scholarships for sports talents directly at their alma mater. Alumni's actions have effectively promoted the development of college sports and the enrollment of sports specialty students.
The last factor is the profit-driven inter-school business competition.
In America where pragmatism prevails, this is actually the most important factor. Although according to the regulations of NCAA and Ivy League, the athletes participating in the competition must be amateurs rather than professionals, and they cannot make money through the competition, but the inter-school competition is an out-and-out commercial competition.
They bring rich income to universities: part of the income comes from tickets. Traditional football, hockey and baseball games often attract thousands of spectators, not only students and alumni, but also parents and residents in their communities. Another part of the income comes from the broadcast of sports events by TV stations and websites.
Part of the income comes from title fees and commercial billboards-almost every venue of college hockey intercollegiate competitions is covered with various commercial billboards.
In addition to income, the commercialization of inter-school competitions is also reflected in the salary expenditure of sports coaches. These coaches are the highest paid people in universities, far higher than university professors, and their salary level depends entirely on market competition.
For example, the salary of Bill Reed, the first paid football coach in the history of Harvard University, was 30% higher than that of the highest paid professor in Harvard at that time, even comparable to Eliot, who had 40 years of principal qualifications.
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