Schools in a national State should set aside more time for bodily exercise. There should be no day on which a boy should not have at least an hour's corporal training, both in the morning and afternoon, in games and gymnastics; one sport in particular should not be omitted, which many 'nationalists' look on as rough and unworthy – boxing. It is unbelievable what false ideas are common about it among the 'educated.' They think it natural and honorable for a young man to learn how to fight and for him to fight duels, but it rough if he boxes! Why? There is no sport which encourages the spirit of attack as this one does; it demands lightning decision and hardens and supples the body. It is not rougher for two youths to settle a dispute with their fists than with a polished strip of steel.
If the whole of our intellectual class had not been exclusively trained in high class deportment and had thoroughly learned to box instead, there would have been no German Revolution of bullies, deserters and such-like. That was only made possible because our higher school education produced not men, but rather officials, engineers, chemists, jurists, litterateurs, and – in order to keep this intellectuality alive – professors.
Our intellectual leadership has always produced brilliant results, but our cultivation of will power has been beneath criticism.( Mein Kampf )
If the whole of our intellectual class had not been exclusively trained in high class deportment and had thoroughly learned to box instead, there would have been no German Revolution of bullies, deserters and such-like. That was only made possible because our higher school education produced not men, but rather officials, engineers, chemists, jurists, litterateurs, and – in order to keep this intellectuality alive – professors.
Our intellectual leadership has always produced brilliant results, but our cultivation of will power has been beneath criticism.( Mein Kampf )