Regardless of the relevance of the economic progress made in the last few years in the European process, Europe is not characterized only by Euro, banks and economy. We are witnessing a raising awareness of the necessity to set the backgrounds of a complete Europe, which envisages the legitimacy of the changes in education. The will to debate, at a European level, the role of the traditional values in education, and of the institutions required to transmit these values, appeared as early as the 1970s, but it was only since 1989 that culture has acquired an official status in European integration. The changes made in Romanian education since 1989 till today target, more or less coherently, an education based on the constant availability for knowledge and action, for the adaptation to a changing social context. This entails approaching the national values from a traditional perspective, but also from a modern one, as education must be the promoter of our cultural identity. In our contemporary world, speaking of tradition may appear as being behind one’s times, as promoting obsolete values or as looking too much in the past. However, we seem to disregard too easily that tradition is a sum of values, a shared experience of the community in which are born, and from where we set out, even when we innovate. If we understand tradition as a sum of values, if we become aware of the fact that we are born, we live and we benefit from tradition, in its wider sense of totality of values accumulated by the society at a given time, then we can connect tradition with education, beliefs, culture and technology, with all the domains of our existence, and ultimately with ourselves.