Guidelines for the Reform of Education 1

Romanian Minister of National Education since December 1997, the author, a distinguished professor of philosophy assumed his post with a mandate and the determination to bring about a massive reform of Romanian education at all levels in order to bring it into line with state‐of‐the‐art western European practice. What follows is a comprehensive report on the elaboration of the reform plan and its unfolding as of the summer of 1998.