A skill as a denial of the essence of a human

The article is devoted to the problem of socialization of the individual, actual for any society, due to the contradiction between the socio-historical nature of human activity as its essence and the need of the economic sphere in the formation of a narrowly pragmatic person. The author focuses on the anthropology of E.V. Ilyenkov, whose main idea is that the school in any society should implement the principles of humanism and the formation of an integral personality with universal abilities.