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The relevance of the article is conditioned by the fact that the modern infor-mation technologies have fundamentally changed the relationship between the sub-jects of the educational process, due to the expansion of educational space, whereas the digital divide creates a tension in the society, which is especially evident at the level of the educational system. Presently, the Western variant of social development is being imposed around the world as an exemplar, where the quality of the education received is determined, first of all, by the developed skills and abilities for solving applied problems. On this road the domestic education system faces the new challenges and dangers. The fact is that new value-related social realities pose new requirements to the upbringing of the specialist: new personality traits are needed for success. The guarantees of social security of the individual in the modern education system are based on the level of social relations. The author shows that the problem of social security of the individual in the modern education system is also due to separation from the local contexts of social practices, which naturally leads to gradual alienation of other social practices too from their historical roots. The study of the problem of social security of the individual in modern educa-tion allows concluding that the person trying to engage in social creativity outside of spiritual and cultural development, solely within the framework of social engineering is doomed to reproduction or destruction. Beyond the spiritual culture the person cannot become a true subject and an actual participant of social creativity. Outside of spiritual culture, he/she will always remain only an object for manipulation, doomed to increasing social alienation and, ultimately, degradation and death.