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Originally Posted by sammyg2
Organized sports taught us very important life-lessons you can't learn from some poser wanna-be endumacator who hasn't BTDT.
They taught us the spirit of competition, that hard work is it's own reward, that worthwhile goals can only be reached with hard work and sacrifice, and you only deserve what you earn.
And you know what? It worked.
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I played sports all my life. I get that part of it and believe that it is part of a well-rounded education. The issue is how it has become the focus rather than a piece of the puzzle.
As for "wanna-be endumacator who hasn't BTDT", my undergrad adviser was tossed in the Manzanita internment camps as a kid during WW2 (she's Japanese, born in the US and was a citizen). The then went on to get a phd in chemistry from Harvard in the 50's, back when women just didn't do that sort of thing.
Some of the faculty have been more and done more than you think...