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themselves under controlled conditions. Physical education is neither

an art nor a science. When the history of human stupidity is written in

the future, one of the most damaging chapters will be on physical exercise
sponsored, supported, and sold by the teachers of physical education. In
spite of its kinship with biology, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and
bio-chemistry, physical education has fallen in love with education and
married her without courtship. Education is an art, not a science. It deals
with the development of skills in the individual persons. Each person is
unique and rein equally unique results. If the physical educators wish

to become artists there is no objection. Art is just as indispensible in life
as science. But in terms of the trends seen in the activities of the physical
educators their purpose is not only to benefit the individual performer
physically but to influence, to modify, entertain, stimulate, and instruct
the public. Here is an opportunity to exercise control over society.

Attempts to control have already been evidenced. Witness the range of
recreational activities in the so-called character building organizations,
schools of all gradations, training centers for the professional and non-
professional adults, church gymnasiums, and municipal recreation parks.

These agencies operate for the realization of certein social ends; the
training of the individual in skills is merely a means for the protection

of the individual against himself and the public. Even the state and the
Federal governnents have gone into the field of recreation, naakth, and

play activities wholeheartedly. Their expenditures are not necessarily random.
The person is not left © his own resources nor are the individualistic goals

accentuated. The aims to be reelized are essentially social.