In 1925, Anísio travelled to Europe where he stayed for four months. He took some quick notes in his travel notebook. During the last weeks of this trip, he observed the educational system of different countries like Spain, Belgium, Italy and France. Once back, in an interview entitled "Paris é um filho espiritual de Roma" (Paris is a Spiritual Offspring of Rome), giving to a newspaper from Bahia, called A Tarde (The Afternoon), he puts forward the ideas of an ardent defender of Catholicism.

Still in 1925, Anísio Teixeira succeeds in seeing his project of an educational reform in Bahia being turned into the Act #1846 of 14 August 1925. In this law, as in the Annual Report he submitted to the Governor Góes Calmon in April that year, he argued in favor of the concept that school should provide comprehensive education helping develop in students civic, ethical, intellectual and action oriented qualities and attitudes.