Oltre Gentile: the Fasc* School as an Anthropological Mission

Rome, May 20th - In the public discourse on the Italian school during the Fascist Twenty-Years, a name gigantic over all: Giovanni Gentile. His reform of 1923, the Liceo Classico as the culmination of national education, the pedagogical idealism erected with an absolute canon: everything seems to revolve around the philosopher of Fascism. But this reading, though rooted, is limiting and partial. Beyond Gentile, a reform project never exhausted T…