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Spiru Haret was three times Minister of Public Instruction and Religious Denominations: 1897–1899, 1901–1904, 1907–1910, and, in this capacity, he was surpassed in terms of duration only by Constantin Angelescu, Minister of Public Instruction and Religious Denominations in 1918–1919, 1922–1926, 1927–1928, 1933–1937. Besides these two ministers, two other Ministers of Public Instruction and Religious Denominations – Dimitrie A. Sturdza (1885–1888) and Tache Ionescu (1891–1895) – deserve mentioning. During the mandates of these four ministers, the main reforms of the Romanian education system were adopted.
In his first term as Minister, beginning on 31 March 1897, Haret had two fundamental laws passed in Parliament: The Law of Secondary and Higher Education (1898) and The Law of Vocational Education (1899). During the same period, the Curriculum for secondary schools was adopted, alongside the Regulations for all the levels of the education system; schools for adults, nursery schools and school cafeterias were established, the journal Albina was founded, the medal “Reward for Labour in Primary Education” was instituted and the anti-alcohol campaign, which had started in 1897, was continued. After returning, on 14 February 1901, as Minister of Public Instruction and Religious Denominations, Haret had to reinstate the Law of Primary and Normal Education (1896), the Law of Secondary and Higher Education (1898) and the Law of Vocational Education (1899), which had been cancelled by the conservative government in 1900.
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