The presented work contains the experience of critical comprehension of the modern general cultural situation from the point of view of education as a basic social institution that broadcasts socially significant experience. The historical approach to this problem gives reason to assert, that the goal of the goal-oriented universalization of the individual in the educational process , originated in Antiquity and finally formed in the classical university of the Modern era , is a leading factor in all the achievements of modern European culture and at the same time the root cause of crisis trends. growing in the course of its development and aggravated at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries . The need to consolidate and optimize this anthropological attitude in relation to modern conditions actualizes the question of a new reform of the classical university. Its main idea: universalizing general scientific synthesis needs a radical transformation of humanitarian knowledge and requires a reliance on art, the educational potential of which is demonstrated by the example of the works of Rembrandt, L. N. Fat, C. C. Prokofiev . The book is intended for philosophers ,. cultural scientists and all specialists in the field of humanitarian issues , Teachers of higher and secondary schools , Managers of the education system, as well as all of these , who are interested in the problems and prospects of the development of modern culture .