Vadim N. Zhukov, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Moscow, e-mail: vzhukov197@gmail.com
The article considers the causes of degradation of higher education in Russia.
Keywords: everyday consciousness, scientificity, social significance of science, knowledge and consumption
Until now, the very word “progress” has been unconsciously associated primarily with the progress of science. So, science education is turning from a center-forming worldview into not just one of the sides of life, but into such a side, which is assigned, if not a peripheral role, then, in any case, not the locomotive of development.