After the independence of Lithuania was restored in 1990, the goal to create a democratic state was declared and a new aim of education was defined to educate a human being pursuing virtues of freedom, independence and democracy. An individual was regarded as an absolute value; the education was to be aimed to cherish his individual nature, to help an individual to reveal common virtues and to rely upon them when building personal life, to educate a critical, independent and responsible citizen of Lithuania. The Lithuanian educational reform, that was introduced in the late 1980s and was implemented on a systematic basis after the independence of Lithuania was restored in 1990, relies on a cardinal conversion of educational paradigms: the classical educational paradigm is being replaced by humanistic paradigm of free education. This shift in educational paradigms is a unique phenomenon in the history of the Lithuanian education.