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The author notes the growing aspiration of modern scientists to objectify the processes in education in the socio-cultural dynamics, while recognizing as true, in this context, the idea of priority of the principle of culture-conformity in modern education. The author performs a social-philosophical substantiation of the principle of culture-conformity as a leading meaning-forming trend in the philosophy of modern education. Culture-conformity as a principle of philosophy of modern education is defined at the level of ideal-forming aspect of the human life-activity. The image of the person of culture is revealed as a leading educational model of personality, expressing the trends and meanings of modern society. The author derives a socio-philosophical justification of the content of the culture-conformity principle, analyzing the major socio-cultural trends and building on the works of a number of contemporary philosophers and classical authors. In the article, a scientific analogy is made between the development of ideas about the person in education and arts, particularly in literature; a vision of man is proposed as a special image of the epoch, the personality in the context of time; the ambiguity of the person’s connection with the epoch is shown, a defining concept of a «cultural model of the human being» is revealed. In addition, the difference is analyzed between the concepts of «nature» and «essence» of the human being; the idea of non-randomness of the turn to a culture-conformal paradigm of education in the modern world is justified. The author examines the relationship between the development of the doctrine of individuality and the social concepts in pedagogy, in spite of their external opposition. The practical significance of the materials presented in the article lies in promoting understanding of the contemporary social situation in education. The content of the work may serve as an auxiliary material for the revealing the idea of culture-conformity in the philosophy of education and the practice of pedagogy. The methods of theoretical analysis, synthesis, abstraction, generalization, comparison, extrapolation and modeling are used in the work. As a result of analysis, the author concludes that the image of the person of culture is a leading educational model of personality, expressing the trends and meanings of modern society. The need to reorient the purposes of education in the proposed culture-conformal direction is dictated, by the author's opinion, by a new understanding of the role of not only human being, but also his/her essence in the culture of modern society.