Times of change for the Romanian system of education – A summary of sources and resources

The indisputable feature of the contemporary society is change, which determines some opportune response mechanisms of an adaptive type (as a consequence of some revaluated flexibility) or, on the contrary, inopportune, such as confusion, instability or inconsistency (as a consequence of some functional or structural rigidity). At the level of the system and process, the specialists in the field are debating the educational reality, in trying to grasp the position held by education in the light of the numerous transformations experienced by the contemporary society. The present paper stands as a concise lecture, whose main subject is concerned with the issues of the progress or regress of the Romanian educational system.