Gentile Reform

The Gentile Reform of 1923 was a

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• The compulsory age of education was raised to 10 years (only elementary education), and was somewhat based on a ladder system: after the first five years of primary instruction, one could choose the scuola media, which would give further access to the "liceo" and other secondary instruction, or the avviamento al lavoro, which was intended to give a quick entry into the low strata of the workforce.
• Gentile created the liceo classico (intended to be the peak of secondary education, with the goal of forming the future upper classes^{[citation needed]}), the only secondary school that gave access to all types of university. Gentile also created technical, commercial and industrial institutes.
• Philosophy became the most important matter of teaching in the Italian liceo classico. Philosophy courses were given in its last three years. According to the
  free-thinking, to develop a critical and systematic spirit which could enable them to order, unify and practically derive all their knowledge from a unitarian principle.^[3] Philosophy was identified as the principal trait of the Italian national identity and spirit,^[4] as well as a form of thought centered on the teacher, typically a male who practically lived and exchanged his mental habit along with his scholars.^[5][6] Gentile's concerns on the philosophy teaching were expressed in the writings titled L'insegnamento della filosofia nei licei (1901), Per l'insegnamento della storia della filosofia (1916) and Difesa della filosofia (1921).^[2]
• Instruction in languages other than Italian was abolished, which affected mainly the German language schools in South Tyrol, and Slovene and Croatian language schools in the Julian March.

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