The Romanian school from Caransebes had a well deserved fame, so that princess Susana Lorantffy, the widow of Gheorghe Rakoczi I, establishes, in the year 1657, a Romanian school at Fagaras like those in Caransebes and Lugoj. She asked the schoolmasters to know very well how to write and talk Romanian, to teach the children the Romanian alphabet and how to sing after the customs of the churches in Caransebes and Lugoj.
Since 1566, there exist two documents which talk about the schools in Caransebes, the first, on the 6th of May of King John II, and the second, on the 15th of June, is a report of the nobles from Caransebes.
In the cells of the Saint Gheorghe monastery was a grammatical school, sustained by the bishop Partenie.
Between 1658 and 1685 the “Scoala romana gramaticeasca de stat” functioned in Caransebes, under the guidance of the Romanian noble Mihail Halici-the father.
The Romanian lord of Caransebes and Lugoj, Acatiu Barcsai, prints, in 1648, Catehismul, the first book written with Latin letters, translated by the first Romanian who studied in Rome, George Buitul.
The cultural heritage of the two Halici, the father and the son, is represented, among others, by the Psaltirea calvino-romana, versified by Halici-the father for the needs of education and Dictionarium valachico-latinum (Anonimus caransebesiensis), the first bilingual dictionary written, in about 1700, by Halici-the son (1643-1712), with Latin letters and Romanian as primary language.
Gavril Ivul (1619-1678), theologian and philosopher of European worth, also printed his books in Latin, books considered to be the first Romanian philosophical works. In immediate proximity, at Iaz, the teacher Gheorghe copies, in 1668, a Romanian liturgy book with Latin characters.
Through an agreement from 1657, the metropolitan Sava Brancovici decrees that education must be made in the Romanian language.
In the 14th century, the tradition of the schools from Caransebes is enriched at the same time with the passing of Banat under Austrian rule (1718).
Until 1741, the Border-Guard School worked, which prepared the next generation of teachers and priests in the spirit of Romanian and orthodox traditions. An account from 1748 of the teacher from Iaz, Lazar Popoviciu, refers to the gymnasium from Caransebes.
In 1779, a German border-guard school is testified here.
After the including of Caransebes in the Wallachian-Illyrian Border Regiment (1783), the Trivial Border-Guard School, that prepared sub officers for the Banat military border, functions here. The establishing of the Border Regiment contributed to the organizing of education in Caransebes and the nearby area, so that in every border commune a national border-guard school with two classes and with Romanian language functioned – a total of 82 schools; at the campaign headquarters a school with three classes and with German language functioned (in time, the number of these schools was reduced); at the main headquarter of the regiment there functioned: a capital school, with four classes and with German language; the officers and sub officers school known as the mathematics school, then the regimental; a girls school and a kindergarten.
In the 19th century the education in Caransebes has a superior organization and will contribute to the forming of elite intellectuals fighting for the rights and liberties of the Romanians in Banat.
In 1811, the Normal Mathematics School is certified, which prepared sub officers. In 1820 the first pedagogical course is organized from the initiative of Ioan Tomici (three months pedagogy course, to which all teacher candidates had to participate) and in 1830, Constantin Diaconovici Loga (who through “Gramatica romaneasca” –1822 and “Epistolarul romanesc” –1840, propagated the ideas of the schools of Ardeal and contributed to the establishing of the unique literary language norms) is made director of the national schools in the border area.

The theological education of the Romanian Orthodox Church of Banat begins in a distant period; in the year 1822 the Clerical School of Varset with Romanian language teaching was founded; in 1865, it was transferred to Caransebes by the bishop Ioan Popasu and became the Diocesan Theological Institute.
In the year 1869, the statute of the Reunion of Romanian Greek-Orthodox Teachers from the Diocese of Caransebes is approved; it worked till near the First World War; and in the interwar period it will reorganize under the name of the “Teachers Association”.
At the initiative of Ioan Popasu, in 1876 the Diocesan Pedagogical Institute is founded. Its director was, from 1877, the eminent pedagogue Stefan Velovan (1852-1932) and from 1894 the school will be called the Normal State School.

On the 13th of September 1886, the Industrial Apprentices School from Caransebes is founded, through which the bases of modern industrial education is put. The workers are prepared for the wood industry. In that period, Vasile Mandrean, teacher at the Civic School of Caransebes, publishes, at Lugoj, the manual Romanian Grammar in the elementary schools, considered to be one of the best manuals in that period.
In 1897, in Caransebes, in the collection “Our library” appears an omnibus from George Cosbuc’s creation (verses and prose), the first omnibus of his work in Transylvania.
In 1898, the Application School near the Diocesan Pedagogical Institute is founded. In 1900, the building of the Civically State-School is being put to use (now, the building of the Pedagogical High School).
In the beginning of 20th century the education in Caransebes is diversified. In the city a civil state school for boys and girls, a mixed primary school, a kindergarten and a Greek-orthodox confessional primary school, near the two diocesan institutes functioned.
Beginning with the year 1873, the general Traian Doda is in the front of the political battles for a Romanian language high school in Caransebes, but only in 1907 begin the Hungarian authorities to establish a gymnasium with 8 classes, with Hungarian language teaching, the spending of the school year 1907-1908 being supported from the “border-guard funds”. It becomes, in 1919, a Romanian high school and receives the name of Traian Doda, as gratitude.

In the interwar period, the three big institutions in Caransebes: The Normal School, the “Traian Doda” High School and The Theological Institute, contributed to forming many intellectuals of national and European worth. After 1948 the reorganization of the education, sometimes chaotic and destructive, didn’t diminish the tradition of the schools in Caransebes; they kept their prestige and contributed plenary to the social and spiritual emancipation of Caransebes.
In concordance with the economical development of the city, some schools of professional teaching are founded, industrial high-schools with mechanic and wood-processing profile, and a driver-school.
In 1958 the School of Music and Plastic Arts is founded, as a reconnaissance of the artistic and cultural past of the city.
From 1993, the theological school was integrated in the network of state education, becoming the Theological Seminary High School “Ioan Popasu”.
In the process of reforming the Romanian education, of synchronizing it with the powerful elements of the European education, the schools from Caransebes and its teachers can bring a real and a considerable contribution.