Let us be vigilant: technologies and education

The paper is dedicated for reflection on the recent events around the software Horizon, and the connected issues. The paper aims at discussing some of the dangers of un-vetted and un-critical employment of technologies and the mission of the education in the context. Methods of critical analysis of personal experiences and references were used for the development of the paper. The conclusions are provided that contemporary education (including higher education) must proceed with the mission it had for thousands of years: help people to learn to think critically, to cooperate, to exercise intellectual caution against established matter of things (that is, dogma), to ask questions, take up responsibility for immediate professional challenges, to look for many avenues of action, to ask for help, to provide help. The educational tools (work in pairs, in groups, discussions, debates, critical appraisal, critical commentary of one’s or peer’s work and other) are there; the aim is to use the tools when appropriate in order to avoid helplessness and fearfulness at the face of ever-increasing technological sophistication of a contemporary world.