Character education as a top priority objective of universities
The author analyses the Law on Education of the Russian Federation and underlines the fact that it treats education as a single process of character and subject education. The author emphasizes that the subject education dominates over the character education at universities today. Meanwhile, every university has a rich and invaluable potential for character education within the academic subjects. Therefore, every faculty member should identify and use this potential. The paper gives the author’s vision on education, discusses the various levels of character education activities at the university and focuses on the need to stimulate self-education of the students.