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The article deals with the goal of the Russian education in the context of the transition to a postindustrial (post-productive) society. The author argues that the transition creates the number of problems, which can be solved through the national system of education. Due to the current challenges (segmentation of the global community to the unequal area, the cultural expansion of the West, infiltration of the enemies of the culture modernity to Europe) the national education faces the task to build creative person (homo creator). This is a person who is forced by post-materialist motives, he is able to make free choice of the life strategy in the interests of self-realization, self-construction in accordance with the consciously chosen the moral ideal. The author highlights that the current Russian professional education should form students’ readiness to be creative - their desire and ability to act being motivated by non-economic interest. The paper shows that the structure of this readiness should include five elements: value-semantic, cognitive, emotional, behavioral and reflective elements. The author focuses on the place that Social sciences and Humanities take in homo creator. The article makes grounds also that the challenges of the XXI century require lifelong learning in different kinds of free associations, which are formed on the basis of public interest. Such structures contribute to free and general professional education and are combined with educational structures for talented individuals; they allow Russian education to fulfill a pivotal role in growing the subject of a society in which “economic interest” will be superseded by a truly “human interest” in creativity.