Thinking About Physical Capital And Physical Education

The present dissertation intends to arouse the awareness of caring about human being and human living. It is a collection of three essays. The first essay explores the trends in body theory and capital theory, and concludes that physical quality, as a capital, is of great importance not only for individual but also for society. The second essay develops a new theory called "physical capital" which is critical to correct the attitude about human body in the current society. The chapter analyzes features of physical capital, changes of its values, transformations among the forms of capital, and its investment, all over of which should serve for physical education as a whole. Finally the third essay explains what true physical education should be. There is an important debate among international specialists as to what physical education should do. Researchers, especially in China, claim to improve students'whole development through physical education. However, the chapter, based on the relations among individual development, individual's physical capital and physical education, finds out the contradictory relation between infinite needs of individual develop and finite stock of individual's physical capital, which decides the only aim of physical education is to invest on individual's physical capital in order to meet the individual needs of development.