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New priorities of the social and economic development of Russia, connected with the introduction of new technologies and innovative development, objectively result in the necessity of new concepts of the human potential development " anthropological ones. With their help, it is possible to change the existing modes of the basic educational process, which is understood by the author as a process of the person's self-determination. The author distinguishes the following types of educational activity: management, design, and research. He also claims that it is necessary to move from the principle of subjects to the humanitarian-technological principle of the education organization. This is because the humanitarian technology (not knowledge) is the unit of the practice reproduction. According to the author, it is necessary to employ a certain sphere approach in the organization of the conditions for the human potential development. The essence of this approach is the construction of an educational society which oversteps the boundaries of the organizational structures of the existing education system.