THE UNIVERSAL DIGITALIZATION OF EDUCATION: A NEW DEGREE OF FREEDOM FOR THE CHOSEN FEW AND A FAKE FOR THE REST
The problem of education (all its levels and forms) has an enduring relevance, being an eternal category, because education is the key to the effective state development and determines the state and development of all society. The aim of the publication is to initiate polemics about the problems of domestic online education in general and related to its forced intensification in the pandemic year of 2020, in particular. The author expresses his opinion about the difficulties and disadvantages of the forced mass transition of education to the network form. It is shown that this transition has quite clearly exposed the rapidly forming differentiation of domestic education on the elite and "for the rest". The differentiation is implemented in families with different material and other resources which promote personal formation and development; it continues at schools which main objective is not knowledge transfer but "production" of fit citizens for the society, mainly the citizens of two "grades". The justifications for this thesis are proved in detail. Two examples of online education are presented: elite - in A. Mitin's new type of school and "for everyone" - the situation with distance education (both school and professional) existing in the regions far from the center. An excerpt from the project "Education 2030" brings the publication to a close and it openly declares the introduction of caste-based education, according to which one group of people (a small one) is prepared to manage the rest of the population, and the other - "one button people", having the competence to use the ready-made services