Before the war in Osijek, Croatia, we had four experimental schools. We made a new model for primary schools and for two school years we carried it out in these schools.Here are some of the results that show how this new model gradually became a reality. It was a slow, irrevocable process. Schools changed more slowly than we expected. The changes in schools were connected with the changes in people and, because of that this, it was sometimes a joyful but other times a painful process.