Education and enlightenment as the two sides of a single process (via the example of ecological culture formation)

the search for the single foundation and specificity for the two very important processes – education and enlightenment, based on formation for the different components of the general culture of a person (ecological, rhetoric, legal, natural sciences, humanitarian, etc.) is attempted in the article. In foreign literature the concepts «education» and «enlightenment» are treated as synonyms whereas in the Russian publications the above-mentioned concepts are used together as a rule in a phrase «ecological education and enlightenment», without underlining the specificity of each concept. The contribution of each of the processes under consideration into the goal achievement is obviously different and the forms of realization of the contribution would be different, too. The article prefaces the realization of the regional project for working out the Concept of ecological enlightenment in the interest of sustainable development in St. Petersburg.