SPIRU HARET-REFORMER OF THE ROMANIAN SECONDARY EDUCATION
SPIRU HARET-REFORMER OF THE ROMANIAN SECONDARY EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the activity of Spiru Haret, mathematician, scientist and an emblematic personality ofhis time, as his reform of the Romanian education system as as Minister of Education, a function he heldfor three terms during liberal governments at the end of the nineteenth century and early twentiethcentury. Appreciated for the rigor, work and professionalism he demonstrated throughout his entireactivity, and at the same time vehemently attacked by his political opponents, Spiru Haret understood thatreforming the education system lies at the heart of reforming Romanian society. He saw education as akey factor of social progress, despite the fact that the Romanian school was facing major problems at thattime: lack of qualified teaching staff, lack of infrastructure and poverty, but also the precariousness facedby pupils and their parents. After an in-depth analysis of the previous legislation, Spiru Haret capitalizedwhat he believed will improve the Romanian education. Considered the founder of the modern Romanianeducation, Spiru Haret aims to meet the needs of a country that had just acquired its independence, andthat was in the process of building an unitary national state.

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