Changes in educational systems are necessary and hey, in fact, represent an attempt to overcome a crisis. They have common or similar causes and thus also common actions and they are immanent to the development of every society. In the classification of such shangcs one can use different approaches, for example: time, systematic approach, structural changes, teleological approach and thus we obtain different classificatory models. Tendencies in the educational development in Yugoslavia go in the direction of raising the quality of the educational activities (which is one of the characteristics of all reforms). Then towards the metamophosis of the pedagogical process with inner changes in the schools, development of society with the so - called outer changes. The dialectics of social changes determine the educational ones as permanent processes.