THE RUSSIAN LITERARY CANON IN SCHOOL EDUCATION

The article actualizes the contradictions in the question of the need to preserve the literary canon in the school study, provides arguments, emphasizes the problems and provides ways to solve them. Classical literature should not go away from the attention of schoolchildren, because it is time-tested and indicates the value guidelines that are necessary for the formation of the human personality. Problems of its studying consist in giving material, work of the teacher, and, therefore, they can be solved and are not defining in a question of change of school regulations.