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The revised 7th national curriculum emphasizes a practice-centered approach for character education. This study is based on the idea that physical education is the subject area in which practical knowledge is more emphasized than any other educational activities in the school curriculum. This alone makes physical education particularly conducive to the process of character education. The main aim of this study is to provide evidence that there is a logical connection between a child's engagement in game activities and the cultivation of his or her character and also to indicate what role elementary physical education play in character education. To achieve this aim, the following five objectives will be addressed: 1) to clarify what is meant by character education and what this education intends to achieve; 2) to examine the relationship between the purpose of elementary physical education and the process of character education; 3) to explore the nature of a game which has been the major content for elementary physical education because of the educational values that a game is inherently concerned with; 4) to demonstrate that a game entails the cognitive, moral, and emotional development of those, in particular children, who play it; and 5) to address the role of the physical education teacher acting as a moral educator to facilitate moral, social, emotional growth in their students.