Vincenzo Troya (Magliano d'Alba, today Magliano Alfieri, 1806 - Turin, 1883) was an Italian pedagogue.
He boasted about a reform of elementary school, finding the state's opposition and dismissal from his role as a master. At a later time, he was allowed to implement his reforms, gaining so much popularity.
Like many minor characters of the Italian Risorgimento, Vincenzo Troya has not been saved from the inexorable oblivion, ending unjustly in forgetting that in 1925 his figure was so remembered by a journalist of the time: "He is still here Turin who remembers that little blind old man, with white hair and a snowy beard at Cavour, framing his face always smiling and open, dominated by the vast thoughtful face; but I have spent more than forty years after her death and the new generations have no Vincenzo Troya, this child educator, who made an apostolate on her mission, a rather vague knowledge ... ".
Originally from Alba in the early nineteenth century, the educator was destined to become a protagonist of the reforms of the Savoy school in the years of King Carlo Alberto, and therefore, after the Unity, one of the most active officials who tried to to adapt to new tasks the educational structures of the young state. His life re-links to the history of Italy, reproduces it in the form of an activism full of political and civil counter-crises. From 1826 to 39 he teaches in Cherasco, Barge and Bene Vagienna. In 1840 he moved to Turin where he founded two experimental classes for primary education. In Genoa directs a method school. In 1866 he was called to Florence (provisional capital) by Minister Berti for a reform of the normal schools. He is the author of many textbooks (syllabuses, reading books, anthologies) that reach high prints. Nicknamed the Grandfather of the Syllabus, because in the fiftieth anniversary of his death, the press of the time reminded him of the fact that he was the author of the first Sillabarian. This appellation remained in memory despite the fact that nothing more ridiculous could be said about him: he did, of course, also composed a graduated syllabary, but in his long life dedicated to the world of school he signed many other school books and was able to boast of various didactic experiments .
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