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The article deals with the dynamics of the criteria of scientific knowledge and their significance for modern education. The author sets the task to determine the division of knowledge base in terms of the admissibility of its inclusion in the high school curriculum to meet the requirements of the scientific position and identify the danger of penetration of pseudoscientific exercises in education. Research methodology comprised the principles of historicism and objectivity, methodical, systematic and objectiveness knowledge. The method of comparative analysis. The development of science and its criteria since the XI century, author revealed two level of the criterions distinction of the scientific and pre-scientific knowledge: scientific and methodological that are common for science and methodology. Identify those weaknesses using that on the educational process can affect the various pseudoscientific directions. The necessity to develop mechanisms of protection against the penetration of modern education pseudoscientific influences. The article concluded that the formation of criteria of scientific knowledge is a nonlinear process. Therefore, these criteria are constantly being refined and supplemented under the influence of changes in science and under the influence of philosophical concepts. Various philosophical and scientific schools offered and offer their own scientific criteria. As a result, formed the criteria accepted by the scientific community and forming a “defense mechanism” of science, whose goal is to preserve the integrity of their own science, as well as the scientific basis for higher education.