The fading of the educational ethos

Abstract

Education is a milleniaold institution of reproduction of humans not only as rational and skilled beings, but beings with formed spiritual foundations of their existence. These foundations were always formed by the family, the church, and education. Alas, the primary hope today is with education. All the more alarming is the fact that the traditional ethos of this oldest of social institutions might disappear. What comes under threat then is the very reproduction of the human as a rational and skilled being. The article considers the current situation with this ethos in Russia.