摘要：AbstractThe present study aims at emphasizing Spiru Haret's indisputable contribution to the reform of the educational system of his time. The great minister, as he was often called by Nicolae Iorga, Spiru Haret can be considered a true creator of law, institutions and educational system. His reform was not always free from contradictions, but remains a landmark in the evolution of valuable modern Romanian education. The Minister of Cults and Public Instruction for almost 10 years, having three mandates, mathematician and educator with a strong love for his country, his principles, law and institutional projects emphasize the primary role of the school in the history and development of a country. The educational system represents the area in which Haret distinguished himself through the contribution he brought in order to develop a reform legislation in a period of time dominated by social insecurity and illiteracy. The wish to educate the masses, highly necessary for the Romanian society of the time, was his priority in his educational activity and principles and which can be also identified in the space of the Popular Universities, anticipation of the later called “lifelong learning”. In order to fight the plague of illiteracy and lack of culture which was noticeable especially in the area of villages, Spiru Haret, being aware of the role of education in personal and social development set up courses for adults, organized especially during his third minister mandate (12 March 1907 and 28 December 1910).During the reform period that we are going through, with deep social and institutional changes, the study invites to a historical retrospective out of which we have to learn to extract, considering the particularities of that period, valuable elements, human and action models from a period that deserves all our attention and which offers initiatives and strategies displaying a remarkable modernism.
关键词：reform;popular universities;adult education;lifelong learning;educational system
