In keeping with Aristotle, ‘education is the process of creating sound mind within the sound body’. 3. Giovanni Gentile was minister of Training in the first Mussolini Government (1922); planned Italian school system reform (1923); wrote up Fascist intellectuals manifesto (1925); supervised many Italian Publishers till his demise (in 1944, when he was killed by an Italian Partisan Commando); started the “Enciclopedia italiana”; was the director of the Scuola normale superiore in Pisa; taught Philosophy on the university and, finally, in 1943 joined Mussolini’s Social Repubblic at Salò.
The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Objectives for Younger Australians (MCYEETA 2008) states that, colleges play a vital function in selling the mental, physical, social, emotional, ethical, religious and aesthetic wellbeing of younger folks.” Nevertheless, without a clear academic philosophy to guide and direct our academic decisions, directions and priorities in these broad categories, our children are nurtured in a learning environment determined by some collective ‘best guesses’ and robust people.
Schooling itself is double-faced: on one side, it is the result of a historical and social context; on the other, it’s a factor (but not the one one) of cultural and, sometimes, even social and political change, in accordance with a dialectical …