The Regents’ System of Marco Agosti between Fascism and democracy

This paper tries to reconstruct the experience of the Regents’ System, conducted by Marco Agosti in the primary school «Camillo Ugoni» in Brescia (Italy), during the Fascist regime. It was an example of Italian active school, based on the self-government of pupils and on a conception of class as a small corporation. Thanks to its original and innovative characteristics, it was revaluated in the Second Post-war, as a possible model for a new primary school, aimed at the democratic education of Italian children.