Deficiency. Education in chaos and confusion

Abstract

This article deals with the problem of redefining the most important priorities of education in the pandemic and post-pandemic world. According to the author, the pandemic has exposed gaps in the values paramount ​​in the field of education. Diagnosis of the problem comes down to an overloading of educational programs with content and excessive detail, which causes the most important goals of education — intellectual development, care for the environment, and training in life skills — to be either lost or relegated to the background. A short list of the most important priorities begins with civic education, because irresponsibility is the reason for wrong choices in every sphere, and on through key competences to environmental education. The article also addresses the problem of the weakness of pedagogy and the impact of its low position among other sciences in the undervaluation of education and development. According to the author, the value of pedagogy and education in society is closely correlated with the prosperity of that society and the quality of life of its citizens.