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Introduction . Many researches of pedagogy and education agree that educational process is not only specialist training but also upbringing of personality. The problem is the absence of a universal concept of personality as a purpose of education. Because of this, the scientific development of pedagogy is impossible. There are many approaches in pedagogy but there is no method of pedagogy as a science. From this point of view, the research results of the Soviet philosopher E. V. Ilyenkov are significant, because he investigated the problem of education of human personality from the standpoint of materialist dialectics that had allowed him to avoid the narrowness of empirical approach and abstract deduction of theory from a limited opinion. Because of this, Ilyenkov’s heritage remains topical and has the potential to become the necessary element of pedagogical education. It is not so in reality yet, because the thinker has not formulated a theory of pedagogy as a completed doctrine. Despite today’s popularity of the philosopher and a lot of analytic literature about his texts, we still do not have a comprehensive analysis of his understanding of education but some research of partial issues only. For this reason, an attempt of reconstructing the concept of education from the thinker’s texts was made. The article aims to expound the results of this research. Methodology and methods of the research. It is shown that Ilyenkov investigated the problem of human education, theory of pedagogy and didactic issues in their internal interrelation and so we can comprehend these points as the moments of the Concept. Although the Soviet philosopher did not develop a Speculative Concept of education (because of his method), his philosophical heritage implicitly contains this Concept. So we can reconstruct it by a logical method. Thereby, main topics of Ilyenkov’s articles - education of personality, pedagogic principles and didactics issues - were studied as moments of Concept - Universality, Particularity and Individuality, respectively. Results of the research. As the results of the research, three interrelated main points were discovered in Ilyenkov’s works about personality becoming and pedagogy: 1) human education is personality education in social interaction; 2) pedagogy is the science of purposeful organization of conditions for education of reasoning personality and it is based on the principle of concrete unity of thinking and being; 3) didactics is the pedagogical skill of organization the process of education of personality. Thus, Ilyenkov’s heritage gives the material for development of Speculative Concept of education, i. e., of scientific (not arbitrary or formal) definition of subject and development of the method of pedagogy. Conclusion . It was concluded that Ilyenkov’s heritage can become a starting point for the joint scientific work of philosophers, psychologists and pedagogues. If the specialists take two main courses of the Soviet thinker - thoughtful study of classical philosophy and comprehension of human education as intellection genesis - they can offer Russian education system a method for education of talented people and sittlichkeit (Ger.) citizen.