Independent writing task: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? A minimum number of physical education credits should be required for graduation from college.
“My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass”; “The greatest health is wealth” are two very famous saying of author Terri Guillemets and the Virgil. Of course, health is the wealth of life, and physical education is related prominently to health, especially in the environment full of competing between students like that in the colleges. As a result, I totally disagree with the statement and these following reasons will support my opinion.
The first reason is that we have to require physical education credits because students at colleges nowadays do not want to practice exercises. They only concentrate on studying, on how to get the best mark when they graduate. They forget that if they are not healthy, nothing can be done. Students always lock them in the room, study and study, without thinking about their health. If colleges still don’t mind that mater, students will get more diseases and become more and more exhausted. To control it, colleges should add physical education to examination subjects to remind students that they have to exercise much or otherwise if they get B or C in physical education, they will get an unsatisfied graduation record even they get A in other subjects. Its purpose is to stress the importance of physical education in colleges.
The second reason is that physical education will create a linking between faculties and faculties, schools and schools. There are a lot of faculties in the college in different subjects so two faculties do not have a middle subject to compete. For example, a biology faculty cannot compete biology with a economics faculty. If the college requires physical education in every faculty, two faculties can hold a sport competition to compete. Also, schools can compete sport with each other because they all have physical education. It is great to play sport with another school.
The third reason is that after college, if the students have to examine physical education, they can easily adapt to the harsh working environment. They are stronger and can stand the both physical and mentally challenging condition. They are ready to type a report with thousands of words, spend all night at the office continuously, go to a lot of places to market products or to meet working partner, stretch the brain to think of a report or plan; etc. These things not only need mental strength but also physical strength to struggle for these difficult works. You need to be really strong so that the brains can affect work. You also need to be strong to manipulate the brain in exhausted time. All need the balance of mind and body, gracefully and perfectly.
In the end, I totally agree with the statement and really love that physical education credits to be required in college.