Culture and geniality, conditions for progress. Spiru Haret - a reformer of Romanian society Cover Image

Cultura şi genialitatea, condiţii ale progresului. Spiru Haret - Un reformator al societăţii româneşti
Culture and geniality, conditions for progress. Spiru Haret - a reformer of Romanian society

Author(s): Cristina-Maria Dabu
Subject(s): History of Education, Scientific Life
Published by: Editura Mega Print SRL
Keywords: Spiru Haret; public personality; politics; education; reform;

Summary/Abstract: The most powerful public personality of the beginning of the XX-Th Century, Spiru Haret revealed (emphasized ) himself through a huge work covering very different areas: science, politics, education, literature. His encyclopedic education, specific for the scientists from the end of XIX-th century, covering areas like astronomy, sociology, mechanical and hydraulic engineering, history, earth physics, allowed him to become a reformer without precedent în the Romanian society of that time and unequaled for the future. Spiru Haret’s reforms, focused on education, culture, ecclesiastical activity, social assistance, modernization of villages, etc. opened the way for the formation of modern Romania and the golden generation of cultural personalities of the interwar period. Work and reforms left by Spiru Haret for future generations, demonstrates once again that authentic progress can not exist without culture, interdisciplinary, morality and creative genius and reformer.

  • Issue Year: 5/2012
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 257-272
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romanian