Prospects for the application of foreign experience in the modernization of the present Russian school

The modern Russian school is in an uneasy situation: today it is necessary to prepare a person for life in a dynamically changing, informationally oversaturated world, in which both great prospects and great risks for an individual open up. Whether the teaching methods and forms of organization of the educational process correspond to modern realities, whether a free person with critical thinking who is able to determine his life path can be brought up in the current school - the answers to these questions are disappointing. If we want to make our schools advanced centers of education and enlightenment, how can positive international experience help us?