Digitalization and education in the mirror of philosophical reflection

the article presents philosophical speculation on education in the context of the digital society current trends. The goal of the research is to comprehend the nature of economic and ideological processes that change society in general and education as part of culture in particular. Interpretation of education as the most significant part of a symbolic capital that brings success for international competition led to formulate the risks of «economy» at the account of wide spread online learning technologies. Substitution of «meaningful» practices for new interactive learning programs actualizes the need to search for additional ways as supplements of digital learning technologies with traditional practices of book culture. The future of traditional pedagogy and human upbringing in the light of the theory of artificial intelligence and gene technologies development is also under special consideration. Keywords: philosophical reflection, education, human being, digitalization, education policy, quality of education, e-technologies, mission of the university.