Abstract
Education in developed countries is undergoing fundamental changes, and/or is at least preparing for them - thus reacting to the changing conditions of social development. It is not only an unprecedented increase in information in all areas of human activity, which is often freely available (but of varying quality and usability), but also an increasing number of risks and problems that humanity will have to deal with.
Schools should prepare students - future citizens - for this situation, but at the same time they must protect them from stress, responsibilities disproportionate to the child's age, and general overload due to the increasing amount of subject matter. What students should acquire in education is no longer only knowledge (about everything that is known), but above all competence - the ability to orientate ourselves in the image of the world presented to us by science or other (for example, artistic) expression, to take on our own an attitude based, of course, on shared values, and draw conclusions for practice and your future life in general from this "oriented" knowledge.