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The relevance of the article is due to a wide range of problems, which are at the heart of the social transformation brought about by globalization and the domination of information technologies, because traditional education in its version of «Western civilization», corresponding to a model of unsustainable development, is one of the most inertial-conservative systems. In recent decades, education in its global dimension no longer satisfies the needs of social life as it continues to transmit the knowledge of the industrial-consumer society, bringing closer an anthropo-ecological global catastrophe. The author focuses attention on the fact that presently the content, goals and objectives of world education is increasingly lagging behind the global trends in the information society. However, the unity of mankind can be reduced to the leading constants of human existence and can be regarded as an unchangeable state, outside history. Today, into place of the states of uniform majority there come multicultural states, i.e. the states of various minorities (social, cultural, ethnic, religious and other), which protect the historical traditions and preserve the ethnic-cultural pluralism. It is important to emphasize that the educational system cannot and should not be a value-neutral: if it does not form constructive value-semantic and socio-cultural mindsets, the vacuum is filled by spontaneously arising, often destructive life orientations. This fact cannot be ignored, because it is exactly on the powerful historical basis that the education of the East has always been founded. In this regard, strengthening the social-humanitarian component of the educational system is one of the ways of preserving by the society its humanitarian potential and ensuring decent future. It is exactly the Eurasian vector of development of education that includes the domestic standards not only in the social-philosophical understanding.