Education as the Fundamental Factor of the Development of the Society

The article highlights the current problems of both general and professional, including legal, education. To solve the problems posed, it is proposed to turn to the Soviet experience of organizing an educational system in which education was understood not as a service, but as a single purposeful process of education and training, with education being a priority. The paper concludes that in order for the country and the people to have a bright future, the education system must provide answers to three fundamental interrelated questions: “What to teach?”, “How to teach?” and “Why teach?”.