He graduated with a degree in law and public affairs from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). It was at the Paris Institute of Political ...

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Born in 1863, Pierre de Coubertin was a champion of sport in education. In 1894 he proposed a revival of the Olympic Games, designating Athens and Paris as ...

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Inspired by study tours of British public schools and American colleges, he resolved “to attach his name to a great educational reform,” embarking upon lifelong ...

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by E Burgo · Cited by 4 — Pierre de Coubertin, father of the modern Olympic Games, traveled to England and the United States with the hope of changing the educational system in France.

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As a reformer, Coubertin believed sports could be a tool for character development and intercultural learning.

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From 1887 onwards, Coubertin devoted himself to “burnishing” the youth of Paris high schools and the French elite. The École Libre drew ...

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After passing his baccalauréat (1880), and despite a bourgeois career plan, he studied politics, history, sociology and education and left the Ecole des ...

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Out of educational interest he visited many English and American schools and universities. On one of his journeys he met with William Brookes, who organized ...

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After completing a Jesuit education in Paris in 1880, the idealistic Coubertin embarked on a plan to reform French education along the lines of England's ...

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