Since the 21st century，the Ministry of Education，Sports and Culture of Samoa has proposed a great number of modern educational ideas，such as equity education，quality education，education for all and sustainable development education，thus，a series of plans and strategies have been proposed. Although to some extent the infrastructure，facilities and teachers’ qualities have been reinforced，loads of problems still remain，including ideas being too conservative，the backforwardness of management styles，high drop-out rates，the deficiency of educational resources，the inappropriate structure of teachers’ backgroundqualifications and inefficient teaching at classes. Overall，there are huge differences between the governor’s expectations and the reality. There are four main reasons behind this phenomenon. Firstly，sophisticated educational propositions and strategies do not match with reality. Secondly，the obedient feature in religion and chieftaincy are different from modern education concepts. Thirdly，there are insufficient GDP and resources to commit the establishment of advanced educational ideas. Lastly，being over-dependent on international aid has weakened the internal motivation of Samoa to develop education for the public.