INTRODUCTION When one thinks of India's future, two things immediately come to the mind: first that India's culture, like that of many other countries, is increasingly threatened by the tendency towards uniformisation; and secondly, that the concept of rebirth necessarily implies a new body, it cannot mean a return to the past. So the only solution seems to lie in a two-fold movement: on one side, to become conscious of what was, is, and will be the essential spirit of India, that which constitutes her uniqueness and can never be destroyed, in other words to discover again what at the deepest level Indianness means; and then, once this has been found, to make it the centre of ev

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND PHYSICAL EDUCATOR   Qualities of the physical educator.   Alt the essential qualities of an instructor are embraced in one word - LEADERSHIP.   Leadership depends upon simple and straight-forward human dualities. These are partly innate and partly acquired. In every first-rate instructor, there is some outstanding quality that defies definition and analysis. How far this particular quality is natural and how far it is acquired, is not easy to say, but certainly it is neither completely one nor the other. Above all, an instructor must have the confidence of the students his instruction. He will gain their conf

FOREWORD This program of physical education is drawn up to meet the demands of the Bharat Sevak Samaj, who are trying to do some valuable work for uplifting the rural population of our country and who have taken up 'Physical Education' as an important part of their programme. As this program is meant to suit the village conditions of our country, it is made as simple as possible without using expensive and elaborate equipment and it is hoped that this programme will give satisfactory results. But by no means it should be considered as a complete programme. It is good for something to start with and, as the demand of Physical Education will increase and the conditions of t

newfolder(1)the aim of life p 14-33.htm THE AIM OF LIFE   Surely our life has an aim. We are conscious beings and we persistently seek things. Some of these things satisfy us more, some less. And through all these seekings and satisfactions we work and hope for greater and greater satisfactions and in fact the greatest possible. What this greatest satisfaction is and how is it possible, is the real quest of man. And one who achieves it fulfils his life. He realises the aim of his life. Man is more conscious than the animals and he can plan and organise his life. But surely his consciousness is yet very limited. His knowledge is imperfect, his will is divided and weak and he is subjec

A PROGRAMME OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   Those who deal with Physical Education probably know that it has two main systems in our country - one Indian, the other foreign. Most of us prefer one to the other and emphasise that the system of our preference alone should be practised. But this being an age of synthesis, we must be prepared to accept even a synthesis in the field of Physical Education. For, each of these systems has a special contribution of its own and the exclusive practice of any one of them cannot by any means lead us to perfection. In order to bring about the proposed synthesis we have to understand both these systems. Then alone it is possible

A PROGRAMME OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION CONTENTS PreContent A Programme of Physical Education Forewords 1. Ideal and Purpose of life 2. Aim of Physical Education 3. Physical Education and Physical Educator 4. Application of physiology to Physical Exercises 5. Hygiene in Physical Education 6. Physical Education Programmed a) Ten and under ten years of age. b) From eleven to fourteen years of age. c) From fifteen to eighteen years of age. d) Form nineteen to twenty-five years of age. e)

A PROGRAMME OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   CONTENTS   PreContent A Programme of Physical Education Forewords     1. Ideal and Purpose of life   2. Aim of Physical Education   3. Physical Education and Physical Educator   4. Application of physiology to Physical Exercises   5. Hygiene in Physical Education     6. Physical Education Programmed     a) Ten and under ten years of age.     b) From eleven to fourteen years of a

THE AIM OF LIFE Surely our life has an aim. We are conscious beings and we persistently seek things. Some of these things satisfy us more, some less. And through all these seekings and satisfactions we work and hope for greater and greater satisfactions and in fact the greatest possible. What this greatest satisfaction is and how is it possible, is the real quest of man. And one who achieves it fulfils his life. He realises the aim of his life. Man is more conscious than the animals and he can plan and organise his life. But surely his consciousness is yet very limited. His knowledge is imperfect, his will is divided and weak and he is subject to fear and