EDUCATION BETWEEN TEMPORES OF CENTURIES. SCIENTIFIC FORECAST OR A NEW PHILOSOPHICAL FUTUROLOGY

Abstract

Since the formation of human as "homo sapiens", society has been trying to teach children, to educate them in the ability to live and work independently. Therefore, the older generations pass on to children their historically accumulated and own experience, knowledge and culture, and form fundamental competencies and values in accordance with historical time. The process of introducing a child into society is called "socialization", and its main mechanism is recognized as a special institution - "education". Since then and to nowadays, there have been heated debates about education. There seems to be no unanimous answer of society to the eternal question - "what teach and how to teach?" And although most analysts, scientists, educators, ordinary citizens and civic activists are convinced that education should prepare a person for life, and that is why - to form his physical and spiritual nature, which would allow him to live humanely. So, the debate continues. It is also characteristic that the subject field of discourse includes not only the current problems of education, but also its contours in the future. And this is understandable. Human does not live so much today as he experiences the future (as the present), he tries to prepare his children and grandchildren for life in it. The same future awaits humanity, what education should become in order to provide a comfortable life in it for the representatives of the new and new generations.