Аннотация:The purpose of the paper includes the description of education in four main
senses: as a system, as a process, as a result and as a value. Such a complex comprehension
corresponds to the prediction of the development of educational system. Analysis of the actual
methods of futurological research work implies in-depth consideration of education as a
phenomenon. The approach of philosophy of education makes future development of
educational system problematic: what are we to predict? Are we able to make a clear
prediction about the forms or content or the bunch of values we transmit? The theorists and
practitioners of pedagogy don’t have a common opinion of that, but agree in the question of
necessary transformation of the current issues in the system of education. Some of them
suggest creating models of desired future, others work with the trends. In my paper I would
like to concentrate on the problems of transmitting values through the generations and
perspectives of social prediction as a difficult question that should be stated and suggested
various solutions.