HUMANITARIAN EDUCATION AS AN ELEMENT OF STATE BUILDING
The article reveals the essence of humanitarian education, its features and characteristics. The significance and importance of humanitarian education is shown, both for society and for the State. Humanitarian education speaks about meanings, values and ideals, thus forming human morality and being the most important part of education. The article also analyses the current situation in the humanities, which is a field of ideological battles of opposing worldview constructions. The author traces the logical relationships between various pictures of the world that exist in the humanities, and shows the consequences for society and the state of accepting one or another picture of the world. The thesis about the principled engagement of humanitarian education and the necessity to put it at the service of the society is justified. The idea that education is just a service, imposed on the society, deprives education of its connection with the state and with the state interests, turning it into an autonomous and self-sufficient field of commerce, which does not contribute to the quality of the graduates. The quality of education determines the quality of life of the state and in many ways, its strength. Only a historically native Russian worldview will work for the preservation and development of the state, the restoration of demographic potential, the preservation of culture, and the return of the country's position on a global scale.