ABSTRACT
Any pedagogical practice has its corresponding theoretical foundation, even if that foundation is not realised by that practice. The theoretical principles of teaching are, to a large extent, based on psychological concepts, and psychological theories, in their turn, carry with them certain philosophical ideas. Popular contemporary educational practice also has its own psychological theories and its own philosophical basis. The philosophy, which for many long years sustained and justified Russia’s educational practice, was elevated to the rank of the state ideological philosophy of dogmatised Marxism.
