In the article on the documentary material reveals the modern problems of Didactics of physics and physical education. For example bright socially centered thoughts academician RAO V. Razumovsky proved the relevance of attention to the scientific method of knowledge, experimentation and modelling, scientific literacy in learning physics.

Keywords: the scientific method of knowledge, experimentation, modeling, educational activities, trouble physics didactics, creativity.

The article is devoted to Alexander M. Guendin, one of the first Russian researchers of methodology of forecasting and foresight.

Keywords: prognosis, prediction, foresight, everyday consciousness, decision making, subject, object.