Grice e Casotti

 Mario Casotti (1896-1975) made a dramatic break with actualism early in his career. A student of Gentile, he nevertheless underwent a religious conversion in the 1920's and was called by Father Gemelli to teach pedagogy at the Sacred Heart University of Milan in 1924. There he worked with Neo-Thomist scholars and produced works on education with a distinct Christian orientation. He is particularly remembered as the founder and director 93 of the Catholic educational review Pedagogia e vita (Pedagogy and Life), a journal that took on new importance in the postwar years. A Christian spiritualist who came out of the idealist tradition was Mario Casotti (1896-1975), who is considered a pioneer in neospiritualist pedagogy. Casotti, a former student of Gentile, had taught in Pisa and Turin; around 1923 or 1924 he underwent a religious conversion, and in 1924 Father Gemelli called him to the chair of pedagogy at the Catholic University of Milan. Casotti remained there for over four decades. He first produced critiques of idealism from a neoscholastic point of view. Eventually, he began a systematic study of pedagogy divided into three parts: teleology (aims of education); anthropology (study of the educand); and methodology. In his "anthropological" writSSLaeng, I contemporanei, p. 872.  381 ings Casotti defends Christian personalism against idealism and materialism. He was a contributor to and editor of the church-oriented education journal Scuola italiana moderna (Modern Italian Schooling). At the Catholic University of ~1ilan, he encouraged systematic child study in a way that later became more widespread among Italian educators.