Development of General Schools in the Republic of Uzbekistan for Years of Independence

Among the main priorities of the state policy of the independent Republic of Uzbekistan have always been questions of training of the educated and intellectually developed generation. The special role in the decision of these tasks belongs to the school education which is laying the foundation in formation of comprehensively developed personality. In the given article features of historical development of the education system in Uzbekistan in different historical periods are shined, functions and the content of training at different levels of formation of the Uzbek state and society are considered. Some data on types of the schools existed in the middle Ages, the methods of education in Muslim schools. In article the period of the end of XIX and the beginning of XX century, connected with emergence of movement of "enlightenment" when approaches to school education towards strengthening of its democratization, availability and a support on national values were radically reconsidered is allocated. The main attention in the article is paid to characteristics of changes that have occurred in continuing education in the country during the years of independence, marked the main directions of the reforms and achievements in the system of general secondary education on the basis of the established, on the initiative of the President of the country, National model of personnel training.