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Introduction. The purpose of the paper is to carry out philosophical reflection about modern education and its ability to solve crisis of personal identity. The relevance of the topic of the paper is caused by the contradiction that exists in the theory and practice of modern education. The problem situation is summarized as follows: the strategy of modern education contradicts its traditional role, which has always been focused on the personality formation. It means that it loses its traditional status. The status consists in performing the role of a leading social institution, which design ways of cultural development of society and each individual person. The paper raises the next problem. Can it be ahead of social and cultural processes? Can it develop relevant educational strategies? The paper raises the issue about possibilities of modern education to fulfill this implicit educational function. It is the problem question of the paper. Methodology and methods of the research. The constructivist methodology of solving the problem is used, when education is considered as a social institution, constructed by the socio-cultural background of the epoch and the style of thinking that philosophy offers in a specific historical time. The research method is a comparative analysis of the strategic attitudes of classical and modern education. The results of the research, are summarized as follows: today the education has its own strategic task to satisfy requirements of the employer. It seems that the modern educational strategies satisfy the leading trends of commodification, economization, marketization etc. This allows drawing conclusion about the transformations of the cultural and anthropological portrait (picture) of the subject of the education. These changes do not promote solving the problem of overcoming the crisis of personal identity. This conclusion is a consequence of the fact that modern education has adopted economic characteristics for its essence. Therefore education is transformed into an economic institute. Conclusion. The conclusions are drawn and the some predictions are considered about future of society. There is a question regarding the formation of a pure commodification educational strategy. Economic transformations are a threat to modern education.