In countries such as the United States, sports culture is linked to education. If young people want to have any future in any discipline, they must first go through college, for them they must be good students in high school.
In that country, the only way to be recruited is through universities and that seems important to me because of everything you said in your post, that education should always go hand in hand with other human activities. I definitely have to see this movie, also because of the fact that its main character is played by Samuel L. Jackson and he is an actor that I really like a lot.
Yeah I really think that education is a key aspect of our life, and I think that one of the clearest examples of this is that there are a lot of athletes that excel in their sport and gain a lot of money but that when retire are not able to keep their money because they don't have the competencies and knowledge to do so and so end up broke or even worse... gaining money can be much easier than keeping it sometimes