Humanitarian Education as a Resource for Sustainable Development

Abstract

This article studies the role of humanitarian education in providing conditions for sustained economic growth. The study is based on the analysis of contemporary tendencies of economical, social and ecological development. Sustainable development in the current context creates a need for the new type of engineers and workers with such qualities as responsibility, creativity, openness to innovations. The author maid the conclusion that it’s impossible to achieve new employee’s qualities, demanded by modern economic growth, only by means of professional education because they depend of human development which is a product of humanitarian education. Thus the study of philosophy and other humanitarian disciplines should be an important part of specialist’s education in modern world.