Mastering the culture of thinking as a key pedagogical problem

A critical analysis of the reasons for the degrading state of modern education is presented, the main one of which is the lack of theoretical and methodological foundations of didactics. The author pays special attention to the dialectic of the abstract and concrete as a necessary theoretical basis for the culture of thinking, in which dialectical logic, acting as a method, forms a coherent system of cognition by all subjects of the educational process. The article may arouse the professional interest of teachers.