Olympic education is an important part of the Olympic movement. Coubertin took education as the main line from the day he resumed the modern Olympic movement. He believes that education is the starting point and destination of Olympism, and the most important thing in modern life is education. Starting from this idea, the basic purpose of his work to revive the Olympic Games is not to promote competitive sports with the Olympic Games, but to integrate competitive sports into education, sports into general education, and then integrate general education into human culture and life. In order to make sports play its role in promoting the all-round development of mankind and realize its goal of transforming society, sports must be combined with culture and education.
In order to solve people's all-round development and improve social problems, people have put forward various social improvement schemes, and Olympism advocates completing this important historical mission through education. Coubertin emphasized in 1896: "Generally speaking, most major national problems can be attributed to education." In 1925, he clearly pointed out: "In my opinion, the future of civilization at this moment depends neither on the political foundation nor on the economic foundation, but entirely on the direction of education. Otto Silamizek also said: "The purpose of Olympism is to pursue education purely, and its target is not only those who participate in sports, but also the people. "Olympism advocated transforming society through education, which played a positive role in promoting the progress of human society at that time. The Olympic Charter also states that "Olympism seeks to combine sports with culture and education to create a lifestyle that strives for happiness through hard work, demonstrates the educational value of good examples and respects the basic principles of public morality. All these show that Olympism takes education as its core content. The contents of Olympic education are extremely rich, including: Olympic knowledge education, Olympic purpose education, Olympic ideal education, Olympic spirit education and so on.
The modern Olympic Games inherited the precious historical heritage of the ancient Olympic Games and absorbed and developed the excellent traditional ideas of the ancient Olympic Games. Such as fair competition, hard struggle, harmonious development of body and mind, the four-year Olympic cycle, and the traditional ceremonies of the ancient Olympic Games, such as lighting the flame, torch relay, opening and closing ceremonies, fully reflect the inheritance of the Olympic Movement. Therefore, we should understand Olympism from the historical perspective of inheriting fine traditions. As Otto Siramizek pointed out: "Olympism has gone through several stages of development, but the basic ideal of the Olympic Games has not changed or wavered, and it is still based on ancient traditions."
A prominent feature of Olympism is the yearning and pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty in human society. Olympism is full of idealism, trying to transform society through competitive sports and create hope for the future of mankind. Coubertin wrote in 1896: "Peace can only come from a good world, a good world can only be composed of good individuals, and good individuals can only come from fierce competition." 19 12 years, in his famous poem Ode to Sports, which won the gold medal in Olympic literature under his pen name, he enthusiastically praised the value of sports, which can be said to be an artistic footnote of Olympism. Laszlo Kong, a Hungarian sports historian, pointed out that Coubertin's Olympic concept, though self-contradictory, even idealistic, is a mutually acceptable ideological basis for organizing sports competitions and promoting exchanges among all ethnic groups in the world.
Olympism carries forward the tradition of the ancient Olympic Games and worships elites and heroes, but such elites and heroes must come from fair competition, abide by the rules and never cheat. Both emperors and beggars should stand at the same starting line and listen to the same command to shoot. There is no distinction between humble and noble. Coubertin said: "Exquisiteness comes entirely from equality, because in the competition, it only depends on his innate advantages in body and his training will." To this end, the Olympic Charter stipulates that athletes and referees should swear to abide by sports ethics and safeguard fair referees at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. It can be said that all the values and functions of Olympism are based on fair competition. Therefore, Coubertin highly praised the "Feuerbach" spirit, which refers to competition under the principle of fairness and recognizes people's inequality in ability. Such as age, intelligence, physical strength and other natural factors, that is to say, only the fairness and equality of the competition process are guaranteed, but the equality of the competition results is not guaranteed. Encourage athletes to tap their greatest potential with the spirit of "faster, higher and stronger" and create greater life value and social value. This is a force to promote social progress.
Olympism has greatly enriched the connotation and expanded the role of sports. It is not only the highest program that dominates sports, but also a philosophy of life with universal significance.
Olympism is the guiding ideology of the Olympic movement, which stipulates the nature and development direction of the Olympic movement. That is to say, the Olympic movement under the guidance of Olympism is not limited to sports, let alone the competitive events of the Olympic Games, but an idea, theory and movement about the all-round development, perfection and social development of human beings beyond sports and competitive sports. It is characterized by taking sports as the carrier, and educating teenagers physically, psychologically and spiritually through sports sociology, so as to cultivate people's all-round development or perfection.
Olympism is based on the dialectical relationship between sports and culture, education, physique and will, and seeks the combination of sports and culture and education, so as to enhance people's physique, will and spirit and promote their all-round development. And raise it to the height of philosophy of life and become the norm of human life. No matter school sports, mass sports or competitive sports, anyone who takes part in sports competitions is bound to be influenced, and through personal practice and contact, these will and spirit will inevitably develop with the passage of time.