Abstract

The civilizational changes caused by information and high-tech scientific and technical progress have been examined by the author. Such changes have a profound effect on all aspects of human existence and will inevitably lead to new economic, social, demographic, anthropological, mental and spiritual situation in the life of mankind, and also have an impact on the spirituality and morality of young people, theirs mentality and faith. It has been clarified how information and high-tech scientific and technical progress and, especially, education can influence the mentality of a young man being intelligent and intellectual personality, his/her nature, his/her present and future existence. Author’s definition of information and high-tech scientific and technical progress and mentality in conditions of information and high-tech progress has been given. It has been shown that our time requires a bright, ambitious, creative personality of the teacher who will be able to teach and educate the younger generation successfully in a progressive manner in accordance with the requirements of the information and high-tech progress. And for this aim it is necessary to destine pedagogical theory and practice, scientific and educational research in the direction of the impact of civilizational change on the mentality of a young man in today’s information and high-tech progress. It has been shown that the Ukrainian nation is looking for its own path of development in modern, post-industrial, postmodern information and high-tech world. It is necessary to attract both public institutions, and educational ones to the intensification of its development taking into account the mentality of our nation, which has its historical origins and values, its specific way of thinking, specific worldview in the system of spiritual life. That is the only way to form the young generation of Ukrainians — happy, educated, spiritually and financially rich with progressive thinking and mentality.