In Romania, the support given to the educational system is not considered to be a priority and this fact contradicts the reality of the contemporary world, which is based on technology; we should understand that nowadays nations are differentiated according to their capacity of innovation and their level of education. A recent poll realized in January 2001 by ISOP indicates a few things which can be considered pretty interesting if we take into account the chances of a series of genuine reforms in the present political and social context. For instance, 92% of the interviewed persons think that the state should involve a lot in the solving of the problems of the Romanian society. At the same time, they think that agriculture (51%) and industry (21%) are more important and need more support than education (3.2%) and research (1.1%). These figures express the reality of a society which includes a considerable rural segment, much more important than that of Hungary, Czechia and Slovakia; at the same time, this society has a significant segment of workers who are not very well qualified and not very productive. Moreover, they work in factories whose technology is out of fashion. Such a community is not very open to change and remains the prisoner of a traditional mentality, depending on the state authorities which are blamed all the time, but from which everybody expects a universal solution - houses, gas cylinders, jobs, etc. This is why the electoral cycles may be said to express the level of confidence of the population and the credit given to various political forces, which are supposed to make the state function in order to help the citizens. We shouldn't discuss now whether such a traditional society is better or worse than the occidental one; the latter is mainly urban and is focused on services, not on industry. The main problem is that a country like the contempo