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self qualified for such a career believes in the science of physical education
and is ready to make efforts, sacrifices, and denial of himself.
Any scientific achievement is combined with a good deal of industry.
The fact is pleasing that the work of young followers of physical education
turns up from everywhere in the world, which engenders hopes
for a strong and qualified rising scientific generation.
PROSPECT
He who chooses the way of knowledge,
has to find an impulse in penetrating the
surface of things, and the inner side of
things must attract him like a magnet.
(Bernel)
We are grateful to the Hellenic Olympic Committee for the excellent
organization of the Olympic Academy. It presents a welcome
opportunity to report about one's own field of activity and to pass on
discoveries and experiences to a selected and appointed youth. Here in
old, noble Olympia is the place where that which is common to nations
and countries is emphasized and promoted. Therein lies the particular
value of this unique meeting of the rising generation of physical education
theachers and trainers.
This meeting of the élite of the sporting world obliges us also to
appeal to the scholars. They should know that "spiritual work can only
prosper in harmony with the body-and not in opposition to the body".
(Spranger)
Physical education is a serious attempt to close that fatal gap
between physical and spiritual work, "which has made the labourer a
revolutionary and the intellectuals decadent" (Fischl)
Physical education at the present time has to fulfil an ethical task.
Human education today must start at the body again, to stop the
"atrophy of man", to restore the original balance of power.
The teachers of the Third Olympic Academy call up on the academic
youth present here for cooperation. For science "does not mean
contemplative repose in already acquired recognitions, but means restless
work and constantly progressive development". (Max Planck.)
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