The article deals with the current state of the problem of the influence of mass media on education of children in the USA on the basis of the analysis of the works of American teachers and psychologists who explore the features of influence of mass media on the development of emotional and volitional sphere of a child and his behaviour.

There are considered the urgent issues of religious education in the philosophic and pedagogic creative work by I. Kant, his views on combination of the moral and religious education and the higher moral law that he called categoric imperative.

Philosophic conception of the pedagogic comparative science is determined as well as its role and significance in the system of contemporary scientific knowledge. The functions of the comparative pedagogy are underlined and revealed. The essence and the content of some aspects of education abroad are analyzed.

There are considered the essential characteristics of professional orientation, structural elements of professional orientation, differentiation of professional orientation as a system and as a process.