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The philosophy of education should overcome randomness and uncertainty of the trajectories of modern education reforms, to substantiate certain basic priorities, ways and means of achievement of universal availability of education, improvement of its quality and competitiveness in the world market of educational services. It is especially important because of the fact that we exist in the global world which today is tough, competitive, and dangerous; therefore, it is vital to have a forward-directed strategy of development of education. In the article it is shown that the subject and object of research of the philosophy of education (as a section of social philosophy) is interaction of the society and education. The problem field of the philosophy of education is connected with the reflection upon the transformations which occur very fast in the society and education, in their interaction and interrelation. Russia has completed the post- Soviet period of development, but the modern strategy of development of the society and education system is still not clear; there is still no precise concept about where and how to develop further. Someone would say, “how can we talk about a forecast, about the domestic education system in the conditions of very acute problems of economy, social sphere, all-pervading corruption?” However, transformation of the education system as a subsystem of this society is objective; and the philosophy of education is called to reflect upon the tendencies of its development, fulfilling the prognostic function to use the accumulated knowledge about education for the selection of priority directions of its scientific-innovative development.