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"Physical education is the art and sci nce of movement"

1 and it is an essential form of non-verbal communication like any other form of art. Physical education of primitive people was informal and unstructural, the main purpose being survival. The Greeks were the first to give some structure to physical

education. Bucher2 has referred to the Greek philosopher Plato having stated asfollows about physical education. "They are not intended to train the body, rather mind except incidentally, but to insure a proper harmony between energy and initiative on the one hand and reason on the other hand by tuning to the right