Образ человека будущего, Том 7 (СИ)

Nowadays education in Ukraine is looking for innovative ways of further development, particularly, in the context of European education. We strongly believe that it can lead to success only if we follow the words of wisdom said by well-known educators as for the im-portance of upbringing, culture and arts. We should remember that improvement, purification, culturalization and enlightenment of "human material" should be carried out through culture and arts. It gives a person an opportunity to glitter by the brilliancy of the unique individual talent, which everyone gets from the Almighty. John Amos Comenius, a founder of a peda-gogical science, was right when he encouraged all nations of the world to build a rapport and support as well as to form a universal human brotherhood and to encourage peaceful labor. He highly appreciated human life that, as he believed, should reflect a humanistic idea. In his view every person is the most beautiful and perfect creature of nature. Only through education and upbringing, it is possible to realize the full human potential and not to become "wild animals, still logs" [Komenský, 1982: 80]. That is why he called school as a "humanity studio." He rec-ommended studying at Academies only for "the finest human individuals." In his mind, only the most talented young people should get education.

Every historical stage according to the prevalent culture, arts and ideals used to build a particular model of a cultural and aesthetic human image. In Antiquity, an ideal of a man who had a beautiful body and soul was glorified. In Middle Ages, an image of a noble knight who served as an example of honor, modesty and courage was celebrated. In the mentioned above context Renaissance is of a particular interest for us. That time the focus was on humanistic ideas, universal knowledge, personal harmonious development as well as educational, cogni-tive and hedonistic values of arts. An ideal human image of those times has been imprinted forever in masterpieces of art, sculptures, literature and music. Eternal images of a true Man are still recognized as hard-working, creative and honest people who have high moral qualities and are able to create a better life. Moreover, that life is associated with the ideals of Wisdom,

Beauty and Goodness. Only true patriotism, spirituality and fortitude can inspire arising of the best ideas and sincere feelings. We speak about a strong desire to harmonize the surrounding reality, to create with a great excitement for the benefit of the whole humankind.

It is important to understand that there is not only a generally accepted image of human

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excellence but it also exists a personal understanding of an ideal in the context of "ecology of personality." That is the reason of differences existence. The process of the ideal creation is connected with identification and development of the personal originality. That necessitates constant inner world development of as well as an ability to find the whole world beauty and of every particular person as a part of it. We should remember about goodness and generosity of a human soul, people"s intentions to get the highest aspirations, come close to wisdom, warmth, behavior culture and high ground acts. "Cain" and "Abel" sculptured likenesses by Giovanni Dupre vividly illustrate the mentioned above ideas. The main point is that every man can act as Abel or Cain did. Moreover, it is important not to make a mistake in the context of his life choice. As it was mentioned by Mikhail Bakhtin "every image needs much time to be assessed and understood."

An urgent need to educate a spiritual, cultural, moral and aesthetic personality is a chal-lenge in the context of our time. We speak about a man who should be ready for social, eco-nomic and cultural changes as well as for revolutionary and reform challenges in all spheres of the modern social life. As it has been mentioned by culturologists, "in case of necessity a person can merge his individuality into culture which is considered as a memory of the whole mankind. It reflects human spirituality development, which is a consequence of the particular cultural events in the past. A man addresses that culture as "a talking mirror" and creates his personal image." [Kruglikov, 1987: 181] The problem of educating a well-cultured person is extremely challenging. A number of factors, which inhibit the process, affects it. The following ones could be identifies as the most influential: lack of interest in the inner world exploring and improving, focus on personal everyday troubles, mass media hypnotic influence on conscious-ness and feelings of youth, current trends to commercialize, pragmatism and deprive society of spirituality.