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Exercise

Overthink

CHAPTER

The Importance of a Gym for Children

Rousseau argues that gymnasiums are the most important part of education because they help us prevent vices from being born. When you're focused on physical exercise, you're not like involving yourself in all kinds of weird flights of fancy and scheming. And so there's a sense in which it keeps your mind occupied on yourself in a way that is productive and leads maybe to the development of a certain kind of personality or of acertain kind of virtue.

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