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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP -- you sound really uniformed. Read the literature about how employers like to hire athletes for their discipline and team work. Companies don't just want smart people -- they want smart people who have strong emotional intelligence, who can work as teams, who are extroverts who can give speeches, etc. Much of the training companies like comes from team sports. This is not a recent trend...study ancient Greece and the history of the Olympics. The "Olympian man" was an intellectual as well as an athlete.[/quote] +1. Private schools strive to churn out future leaders. The tried and true recipe for that is scholar + athlete.[/quote] Agree completely. In fact, I thinks schools such as Sidwell and GDS (two that particularly come to mind), which seem to disregard the importance of strong team sports and leadership ability, send less well adapted and capable students out into the world.[/quote]
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