The importance of physical
education at college
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
