SPIRITUAL AND CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF STUDENT YOUTH AS A SPIRITUAL AND CULTURAL VALUE OF EDUCATION: OBSTACLES TO DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The article describes the spiritual and creative potential of students as a key spiritual and cultural value of education. The author has analyzed scientific publications of modern scientists-philosophers, psychologists, culturologists, educators, devoted to this problem. The article presents the author’s definition of the concept "spiritual and cultural potential of students". The emphasis is placed on the importance of attracting students to the implementation of active creative activity in the process of their education, which will allow them to make an ascent from the knowledge gained, enriched with "felt" life experience, to a comprehensive disclosure of their spiritual and creative potential and will make it possible for them to realize the meaning of life, i.e. to live a full life filled with joy, pleasure and happiness.
The article provides a characteristic of the ideas of modern scientists-educators about the goals of education at the beginning of the 21st century, among which the focus on the creative self-development of a holistic, creative, initiative, highly spiritual, highly moral, highly cultured, highly educated personality occupies an important place. Particular attention in the article is paid to the characteristics of the main obstacles to the development of the spiritual and creative potential of students. Among them special attention should be paid to the sharp reduction in the number of humanitarian disciplines and art classes in the curricula of universities, which negatively affects the development of spiritual and creative potential as a key students’ spiritual and cultural value of education.