The beginning of engineering education in schools

This article raises the issue about the importance of the basic training of engineers at the earliest stage - in middle and high schools. The work describes the approaches to the development of students' technical thinking allowing to motivate future students and graduates of technology universities of the country. The authors point to the urgency of creating pedagogical conditions for the development of engineering skills in middle school. They also consider the role of colleges of education in teachers' training to solve the problems of students' engineering education and in a special teachers' training to make them able to develop students' technical thinking.