It is not the education system itself which has some problems, but the high officials of the Ministry of Education and Research. If we hadn't known what an excellent team Mrs. Ecaterina Andronescu, the Minister of Education and Research, made up with her colleague from Iasi, the PRM (Great Romania Party) deputy Anghel Stanciu, while she was Secretary of State, we wouldn't have been surprised at her recent declarations and decisions. There was a time when she used to worry about the fact that the "education in the mother tongue might favor the ethnical separation". At that time, we didn't agree with her and we thought that her attitude could be labelled as an "opposition fever". Meanwhile, the PDSR members started to use European terms in order to decribe the multicultural trends, but Mrs. Andronescu didn't give up her social democratic ideas. But the way in which she acts suggests that she might have plenty of gaps to cover. Since Mrs. Andronescu keeps referring to the party's programme and her social democratic background, we should wonder how these principles might be applied to the present system of education. One of the first measures promoted by her was to reduce the number of the paying places in the state university system to 25%; this measure was justified by mentioning the low amount of students coming from the rural environment. This motivation reminds us of the communist criteria which invoked the "healthy origin"; it is clear that it can not lead to any positive results. Both the candidates coming form the rural environment and those living in towns compete for the university places susbsidized by the state and they are characterized by an equality of chances. If PDSR wants to increase the number of the students coming from the rural environment, it should modify the quality of the rural primary education and transfer the high schools having a theoretical