Gentile Reform

Results

• The compulsory age of education was raised to 10 years, 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, the only secondary school that gave access to all types of university. Gentile also created technical, commercial and industrial institutes.
• 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.