physical education: Quick Facts

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High school girls in blue and white soccer uniforms play a soccer match on a grassy field during gym class, with a yellow school bus in the background.

Children in an elementary school physical education class.

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Topics

physical conditioning curriculum STEM foreign-language instruction Liberal arts schola cantorum paideia

Key People

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Senda Berenson

American educator

Eliza Maria Mosher.

Eliza Maria Mosher

American physician and educator

“Father of gymnastics”

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn

German educator