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In the article there are analyzed the characteristics of the philosophy of education in various philosophical traditions associated with two projects of science and the corresponding two types of rationality. The distinction between the types of rationality, which later led to distinguishing of two science projects, can be traced to Aristotle. They are the sophistic (essentially metaphysical) type of rationality and the dialectical one. In this case, the distinction between two projects (the metaphysical and dialectical ones) is based on the distinction between the types of society, and, consequently, the distinction between the social institutions in them. As a consequence, whether directly or indirectly, the research of the ontological status, axiological and praxeological dimensions of education as a social institution is based on the ontology of the kind of society that the education reproduces. The ontological characteristic of the transformation of education in the contemporary Russia is related to the controversial transition from the former dialectical understanding of education to its interpretation as a service, which is connected with the sophistic type of rationality. Modern education in Russia at the level of rationalities, which are put into the system of education and training, is a mixed sophistic (metaphysical) and dialectical rationality, partially replacing each other. Convergent oscillatory motion of the education system in Russia towards metaphysics and the possible total loss of dialectical framework are the result of the country’s entering the global project of the world transformation based primarily on the globalization of information flows (the informational globalization).