IUSTIN GHERMAN*

BETWEEN REFORMATION AND TEMPERANCE.

THE ACT OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION FROM 1893
(Summary)
Keywords: Act, education, reform, Parliament, conservatism.
Vocational education state at the end of the nineteenth century in Romania was at a
mediocre level. Part of the legislative program undertaken at the beginning of the
government, it has become an area that Petre P. Carp, Minister of domains, could not
ignore. One of the reasons was the fact that it came in line with the draft stated by the
Minister of public instruction, Take Ionescu, relative to reforming primary education.
The Act of Professional Education was divided into three titles. The first title
displayed the vocational education in general, the second one was dedicated to the
agricultural, forestry, commercial, arts and crafts education and finally, the third one,
stipulated the transitional provisions, general conditions of pupils enlisting, teachers and
State obligations and year of the law enforcement. The bill of vocational education was
first presented to the Chamber of Deputies on February 3, 1893 and after that, in the
Senate meeting of March 19. After boisterous and spirited debates, the project was
voted by the Chamber of Deputies in the meeting of February 11 and respectively
March 22, in the Senate.
The new organization proposed by the minister of domains established practice
in model farms or in school workshops that the state was going to build, and where
pupils could apply the theoretical knowledge acquired without creating ailments to
employers, already pretty intransigent. There were of course, opinions asserting that the
law drafted by P. P. Carp did not meet the requirements of Romanian society
development, but in the end, its provisions laid a viable foundation for the next steps in
the field.

Doctorand, Facultatea de Istorie, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iai.