Is the holistic educational approach in the days of the unculturation of Russia and the dehumanization of education possible?

The article is based on the report of the author at the XIInd All-Russian seminar in the memory of the professor V.S. Ilyin “The holistic educational approach: the study is continuing”, devoted to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous national scientist-teacher. The holistic educational approach is covered as a sacral concept and phenomenon, there is made an effort to consider holistically the context of the education and the practice of the education itself in the modern Russia.