Ideology and its role in the strategy of modern liberal arts education

In this article, the author attempts to consider the role of ideology as the main guide to improving the quality of higher education. According to the author, ideology represents the unity of two ways of seeing the world: abstract-logical and value-regulatory. In the first case, the emphasis is on the objective substance of the world; secondly, on the subjective attitude to it from the point of view of certain meanings, values, culture. No social institution, especially the Institute of Education, is complete without idealizations and ideas. An example of this is the national idea, as an expression of the very specifics of culture. It is based on meanings defined by traditions, customs, values and norms and is the basis for the construction of social existence. This article sees the main purpose of ideology as a sociocultural basis for the strategy of russian education development.