Educational Reform

In the first years after the Revolution, the Romanian educational reform in education was confronted by real problems, false problems and a lot of slogans.

The main slogans:

The Romanian educational system is wonderful! See the results of our Olympics!
We must do the reform, but here, where I am personally involved, all is OK. Please go with your reform in the rest of the system!
It is enough to reconsider only the political subjects in our curricula and the reform is done!
The false problems:

All must be regulated.
The Hungarians intend to take control of Transylvania and they must be stopped.
The State (the President, the Prime Minister, the Minister ...) must solve all the problems at any level in the system.

The real problems:

the Romanian political class did not (and does not) care about the educational issues
the educational community was (and it is) scared by any changes in the system
any reform in education must start with reconsidering the financial mechanisms, but the Romanian economy was unable to support a substantial improvement in financing education
the local communities did not have the skills requested for a consistent involvement in managing what can and must be locally managed
the business environment was growing slowly, with a lot of specific problems keeping it far from the involvement in education
Despising all of these impediments I considered that the reform must start with a simple, clear, and permissive project embodied in the "Law of the educational reform". No matter how idealistic this law will be, I thought, it is necessary because it establishes our main targets.
In September 1991 I decided (after few days spent with Sorin Antohi in Oxford, attending a workshop on financing education) to write myself the project (accompanied by few introductory statements ), because previous tentative provided too conservative, too complex and too detailed forms.
``Miners" ended my political adventure and I did not have time to submit my project, by turn, to the Prime Minister, Government and Romanian Parliament. I used it few years later, when Professor Andrei Tugulea helped me to send it as a general amendment to the Law of Education debated at that moment in the Romanian Parliament. As far as I know it was completely ignored (see the full of slogans, conservative, bushy and huge text of the actual law ).