Based on the scientific literature, the article deals with the mission of higher education, in particular the education of future specialists, in development of the culture of the educational process subjects. The bioethics is considered to be new ecophilosophy as the basis of education. The author’s concepts of “bioethics” and “bioethic education” is suggested and described in the article.

The article presents the author's view of the modern environmental education, the establishment of which is influenced by countervailing processes in science and society. It gives the arguments in favor of the culturological model of environmental education .