The life and the work of Pierre de Coubertin reposes on
cultural principles capable of unravelling the antinomies
of the human condition, in offering to a world in full
transformation, a new manner of thinking and acting.
From his school years, Pierre de Coubertin felt the necessity
of a «pedagogical rebronzing» (to renew, stronger
and better): «almost unconsciously and moved by
a strange instinct, I indicted in my child’s judgment
all French pedagogy» he affirmed before the «French
Association for the advancement of Sciences» on
January 26,1889. At twenty years of age, he turned to
comparative pedagogy and for several years travelled abroad,
indispensable for accomplishing his observations. As early
as 1887 he responded to the campaign of the «hygienists»
on «scholastic overwork» in proposing, as
a remedy, the organization of leisure. In 1906 he founded
the «Association for the Reform of Teaching»
and published thereafter in three installments the program
of an integral education, under the title: «The
Education of Adolescents in the XXth Century». Elected
President of the Union Pédagogique Universelle
(Universal Pedagogical Union)
in 1925 he finalized the «Charte de la réforme
pédagogique» (Charter of Pedagogical Reform)
for a return to a more vast and purified life.
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