A 1923 reform of Italian education was named for Gentile but drafted by Croce

Evidence

In 1923 the Mussolini government put through the first major reform of Italian education since the unification of the country sixty years earlier and the adoption of the Piedmontese educational system, as laid down by the Casati Act of 1859. The reform was drafted by, and named after, the idealist philosopher Giovanni Gentile, who was Mussolini’s Minister of Education; but its main lines had in fact been worked out by Croce, who had held the same post in the Giolitti government of 1921. … The watchwords of the Gentile reform were “educativity” and “active education”, and Gramsci’s object in his writing on education was in part to expose the rhetorical character of these slogans, and to show the practice which lay behind them. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 321

Categorization

• QUESTION: The division of labor between Gentile and Croce on the 1923 reform, and how Gramsci positioned against both, could be worth chasing in the primary texts.
• XREF: connects to: Gentile’s 1923 school reform tried to synthesize Italian high culture under the national ideal. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2635; Fascist school reform aimed to synthesize Italian high culture around the national ideal
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gentile’s 1923 school reform tried to synthesize Italian high culture under the national ideal. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2635; Fascist school reform aimed to synthesize Italian high culture around the national ideal