The article considers the possibilities of thesaurus approach in the development of humanitarian thinking of schoolchildren in the conditions of regionalization of education. Local orientation, as one of the features of humanitarian thinking, is a condition of reflexive understanding of personal experience in the context of universal values on the borders of cultures. It is proved that humanitarian thinking is based on personal experience (obtained as a result of selective understanding of the world by the subject), which is arranged as a thesaurus, performs its role and functions.