Education facing the «Challenges» and «Temptations» of the modern world

The article presents the author’s thoughts about the nature and essence of education, the content of education in the modern world, describes the way of gaining and retaining vitality and will for the future life. The principles of «positive psychology» and «smart pedagogy» are formulated. The author describes the features of adolescence and shows how they can be used by irresponsible politicians. He proves the importance of offering young people meaningful definite ideas about the meaning of life and the right life strategy.