Looking at mental bases of social projects, we proceed from the fact that the institution of education and its components (so-called “actors”) are traditionally the main agents of social transformations. The power of education as a social phenomenon is not linked to the fact that education is a sphere that requires continuous substantive or formal transformation. On the contrary, the formation of the space is conservative, and changes in it are internal and institutionalized within the historically long period of time.

Keywords: identity, historical memory, history, social mentality, individual mentality, mental projects, mental approach, project technology, philosophy of education.