When I was growing up we had phys. ed. every day.
I hate telling “when I was a kid” stories because it makes me feel really old, but we had phys. ed. every day. I looked forward to that so much because that was my avenue to explore different things.
I'll go back to my earlier point. We've taken that away from kids. Shane made a point about kids trying things that they would never try. I've got my kids in skating lessons so that they can be taught by a professional coach how to skate properly, because I know it's going to be beneficial to them for the rest of their life. The other day I was watching my kids skate, and there were two kids no more than five years old in full hockey gear, with a net pushed up into the corner of the ice, just playing one on one. There was no coach, nothing; they were just playing. They were trying things and doing things. They'd obviously been taught by a hockey coach who knew what he was doing, but they were on their own, exploring that, trying things and just playing around.
You can learn so much in that environment as a child, because that self-guided learning is so important, but you do need to have somebody who puts you on the right path to begin with. If you want to be a hockey player and you step on the ice for your first practice with your new team and your coach is clinging to the boards because he can't skate, what is that coach going to teach you? What training has that coach had in how a five-, six-, or seven-year-old child learns?