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The author expresses a critical opinion concerning the implementation of the idea of humanization of the Russian education. The lack of success in the education humanization is explained by the author by the prevalence of the scientist and materialistic ideas in the society, which exclude universal and metaphysical understanding of the essence of humanity and, through this, provoke the "lack of humanness" phenomenon becoming wide-spread in the society. There are considered some forms of the lack of humanness: the authoritative collectivism, individualism, and pessimism. Also, there are indicated two ways of humanization of the person: self-knowledge and dialogue. It is shown that the success of education humanization depends on widening the sphere of dialogical education.