Professions, like schools, are many. The School of Civic Education is not about a profession. Its mission is for the international expert community to provide up-to-date knowledge and understanding of global problems to all those who are ready to discuss these problems publicly and get involved in the process of finding solutions, not only at the global level. The motto of the School is: ‘We are all different, but we are citizens’. As the reader will see, the School did not appear out of nowhere — its appearance was preceded by the participation of one of its founders in the publication of a series of books ‘From the History of Russian Philosophical Thought’. The appendix contains a dialogue with Y. Senokosov ‘Not crossing out, not starting from scratch…’