THE SPREAD OF IDEAS ABOUT INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY IN ROMANIA

The nineteenth century in our country may be considered as being very important from the intellectual perspective and not only. Although, Romanians proved to be less inventively or too moderate on economic issues, in this century, some personalities, born in Romania and educated in the west part of Europe, tried to emancipate the country by spreading industrial and implicitly, economic ideas among Romanians, who did not wish for wealth, did not start wars to seek for wealth because they were already proud of their riches which have to be defended in their own country. The opening to Occident was a gradual but painful process, many of the original values disappeared being replaced by others more or less good, but bad behaviours and attitudes were naturally kept. We are convinced that the process through which new ideas are generated and ultimately translated into policies and programs that shape the flow of history may be too complex to be reduced to a simple and unidirectional schema; thus is why, we are going to present shortly the main ideas that changed the future of Romania in the nineteenth century.