Sports have been viewed as a way to stay healthy and fit. But sports’ importance goes much further. Sports help in the overall development of students. Playing sports teaches lessons of life, such as teamwork, accountability, self-confidence, responsibility, and self-discipline.
Sports in school help prepare students to face the challenges of life. They enhance physical and mental abilities of students and help them achieve the goals of their life. One can realize the importance of sports by the various national and international sporting events organized all over the world, where sportspersons represent their own countries.
The training of the students starts right from the school level. Sports help develop values of mutual trust and cooperation. They help develop students’ capacitiesin taking instant decisions, and they enhance thought processes. The feeling of sportsmanship or sporting spirit, which develops in the sporting arena, teaches students to accept failure and to respect others. The feeling also helps indeveloping a calm and positive outlook, and it increasesstamina by strengthening bones and muscles.
Importance for Health
By indulging in sports, you can get the best exercises, which help maintain youroverall fitness. Regular sporting activities can prevent chronic diseases and help develop healthy heart, strong bones, and enhanced lung function. Sports help control diabetes, manage weight, enhance blood circulation, and manage levels of stress. Through sports, there is a good balance of physical and mental growth, which helps tone muscles and makes bones strong.
Sports inculcates in students the importance of a healthy lifestyle. Sports help in preventing obesity and in encouraging healthy eating habits. Young people involved in sports typically consume more fruits and vegetables, have less chance to be obese, and are more likely to become physically active adults.
Regular sports and physical activity help prevent communicable and non-communicable diseases. Hence, sports are cost-effective methods to help improve the health of the general public in developed and developing countries.
Social and Personality Development
Sports not only contribute to physical health but also enhance social and personality development. They helpin enhancing leadership skills and in improving capacity for goal setting and character building. A student, who is active in sports, will naturally have greater self-esteem, improved social interaction, and a more positive outlook on life.
Sports activities make children acquire ethics, values, responsibility, discipline, and a sense of confidence and mutual trust. The sportsmanship spirit helps a person deal more gracefully with the ups and downs of life. He/she will lead his/her life with good morals and a positive attitude and is thus less likely to be a victim of social evils. As per some studies, students, who compete in sports get better grades, have more confidence and graduate at higher rates. The majority of them avoid evils,such as drugs, unplanned pregnancies, obesity, suicide, and depression.
National Development
The main contribution of sports to nation building is by fostering feelings of unity and national pride. Students learn to be mutually loving and peaceful citizens. Team-building and cooperation are values built up by sporting activities in school. Sports help develop character and increase confidence levels in youth.
Sports also help build a good health status of the citizens of a country. Good health contributes to the high standards of living. Sports encouragethe growth of sports-related industries, which brings employment opportunities and booststhe economy.
These are all some top facts about the utility of sports in the school curriculum,which even the best schools in Lebanon swear by. In the era of budget cuts in schools, decision-makers must realize the importance of sports for all kinds of benefits.
