Sykoutris did not limit himself to teaching and writing. Newspapers and magazines hosted his texts and many venues in Athens and provincial cities opened for his lectures. Wherever he was, he created regenerative circles and a spiritual atmosphere. He founded the Philological Circle for Modern Greek and Foreign Literature and the Scientific Tutorial for Classical Philology with his students. Also, in the spring of 1936, he founded a Higher School of Literary Education, named "Askraios," with Kostis Palamas, Gregory Xenopoulos, and Nikolaos Louvaris. Sykoutris did not support any political party nor did he have the favor of any political camp. Of course, he was a Hellenophile, an aristocrat of the spirit, opposed to materialistic theories and an idealist. 

We could include him in an informal movement of national spiritual self-awareness and creation that developed in the 1930s and continued by some after the war. As a small tribute to the voluntary death of Ioannis Sykoutris, we will conclude with a paragraph from his wonderful text "The Heroic Way of Life": "The life of a heroic person can only be short. Short, not always in the common sense. They may live many years at times, but they will always be few relative to the abundance of their vitality. Moreover, age is relative: it is not measured by duration, it is measured by its content."