Rivalutare la scuola serena a cent’anni dalla riforma Gentile.

Resorting to several texts drawn from Giuseppe Lombardo-Radice’s works, the paper aims to illustrate what the Sicilian pedagogist actually meant with “serene school”, that he used to consider the model to which tend for fulfulling the elementary school reform of the year 1923. Reading these texts, we infer that many pedagogical ideas and many didactic suggestions are still considered valid and are even nowadays used in the primary school, although the name “serene school” is hisgtorically overcame and considered outdated. Neo-idealist pedagogy focus on the teacher rather than on the pupil should not be regarded as a refusal of the “Copernican revolution” operated by Rousseau, but instead as an attempt to make the teachers aware of it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]