The first word is the word of truth; So, the second should be a word of lies. Jean Calvin. Instruction in the Christian faith. Prince. IV. Ch. XIX: 8. "High" modernity and overcoming the subordinate status of education Today, they are increasingly talking about the coming century as a “age-liberator”, as a certain reality in which everything should be transformed-of course, for the better. “Old” finally-to squeeze out, and “new”-to find a humanistic and fair appearance.

Print Alexander Kyosev * For several decades now, the specter of illegitimacy has been haunting the world's universities. arises Gradually the question of their raison d'être - the question of their foundations.

“Black Book” by A. A. Valentinov, better known as the “Storm of Heaven”, in a good “tendential”. Its goal is to tell at first the European (originally it was published in English and German), and then the Russian reader about the surpassing all reason for the violation of religious freedom in Soviet Russia.

The modernization of the Russian education system, announced more than a year ago, still causes fierce debate in society. At the same time, after the start of the corresponding experiment, issues of the content of education faded into the background - the timing of the introduction of the twelve-year school was postponed indefinitely, and the struggle between "subject" lobbies does not greatly concern the public.

Print Leonid Venberg After reading the very interesting first issue of the magazine for slow reading - “Domestic Notes” (2002), I really wanted to join the conversation on the topic of “education”. In our country, it seems to me, the genre of civilized discussion “regardless of persons” has never been developed. Meanwhile, nothing awakens thought and develops it more than involvement in live polemics.

Print Yaroslav Kuzminov Last December, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development education spokesman Andreas Schleicher announced the results of a study examining writing skills among schoolchildren. The results are amazing: Russia is losing the title of “the most reading country in the world,” its younger generation practically does not know how to understand the meaning of the text they read, analyze it and use the information received.

About the school It is clear that the information world in which we largely unexpectedly found ourselves will make our own adjustments to school education. Therefore, the task of the school is to prepare a person according to the model not what happened, but what could be. After all, today's children are tomorrow's adults who will live already in a completely different world.

In general, advertising is a world of unnecessary, insignificant, a world of pure connotation. It does not participate in any way in the production and direct use of things, and yet it is an integral part of their system - not only because it deals with consumption, but also because it itself becomes an object of consumption... it is also a discourse about the thing and the thing itself.

It is obvious that today the success of higher education, and therefore fundamental science, is the key to maintaining the status of a civilized state for Russia. This situation paradoxically brings us closer to the one that developed in Russia in the 18th century, when, thanks to Peter’s reforms, the country gradually entered the unified European cultural space that had emerged by that time.

“Middle class” refers to that rare type of conventional concepts that are used frequently and, as a rule, without very strict semantic content. It would seem that this is the lot of a very wide range of concepts in modern public discourse. However, another statement is also true: if a certain concept is truly conventional, then in intellectual circles, of course, there must be an unspoken agreement about its conventional meaning.

In this second issue of 2002, “OZ” continues the discussion of key issues in Russian higher education, which began in the previous issue. The first issue on education revealed a great controversy over the very goals of education. Our various authors, representing the top experts in Russia, strongly disagree on the essential issue of whether the society needs to train professionals or educate good citizens.

Background The era of oil as a global economic and political force began in the 50s of the 20th century. The 50s can be characterized as the era of large oil companies, predatory pioneers who belonged to the world of American and European business, who at that time acquired enormous power and received large super profits. The 60s are remembered as the era of cheap oil, a time of oil consumers who received it in unlimited quantities at falling prices.

* In recent years, in France there has been more and more talk about a crisis in the model of teaching philosophy in gymnasiums. This crisis is manifested in the growing anxiety and confusion of teachers in connection with unclear requirements for teaching and poorly defined boundaries of their subject, in vague criteria for assessing student work and significant discrepancies in exam grades in philosophy.

The feeling of disadvantage in the sphere of education had matured in society by the mid-80s. But sensation is far from the basis on which real transformations can be built. Things never got to the point of serious substantive, let alone organizational and technological, development of education reform [1] .

The education system in Germany is a classic three-tier structure , consisting of primary, secondary and high school. At all levels of this structure, both public and private educational institutions are represented, although the number of the latter is insignificant. The German state guarantees compulsory secondary education to all citizens, so education in public primary and secondary schools is free . In most cases, education at public universities is also free.