The Quality of Education as an Indicator of the Rational Synthesis of the Arts in the Baroque Era

Abstract

The article provides a critical view of the quality of education in Ukraine today and its phenomenal success in the Baroque period. The interaction between culture and education and the obvious crisis in these closely connected fields promote the search for causes and solutions. This article formulates themain historical reasons for the failure of educational approaches of the industrial age. The author considers the quality of education in the Baroque era from the standpoint of the successful application of the principles of the septem artes liberales (seven liberal arts) system of education. The Petro Mohyla Academy in the XVII–XVIII centuries serves as a specific Ukrainian historical example. Using Ukrainian and foreign sources, the article points out the importance of the formation of worldview principles among the educated aristocracyand highlights the problems of both assessing the quality and the degree of compliance of education with various social requirements.