Once Again of Education... Book review by G. Yu. Lyubarsky “Education of the Future. University Myth and the Structure of Opinions on Education in the 21st Century”

Abstract

The article deals with the main problems of the modern stage of the development of education, raised in the book by G. Lyubarsky. First of all, we are talking about the ideas, if not myths, of the mass consciousness about education, which often do not correspond to reality. In modern society, and Russian education is no exception, education, including higher education, has essentially disappeared. Only its formal institutions survived. Among the reasons is the increasingly fragmented nature of the knowledge gained, the transformation of the very process of education into entertainment, since today it should be, first of all, interesting. Describing the field of scientific research, the author of the book comes to the conclusionthat the notorious media coverage has also played its negative role here, tearing the unified field of science apart and hindering scientific research in those areas and disciplines that do not promise a quick media or commercial effect. Science has become just one of the ways of intellectual production, but not everyone is ready to accept this new reality. The role of the university as an institution for the transmission of culture has also been eroded.