The article deals with the problem of the transformation of the education system in the conditions of the spread of artificial intelligence technologies and digitalization. It is demonstrated that the problems identified as key for modern education are not specific problems of modernity. In this regard, it is proposed to consider the necessary transformation of modern education not as a radical transformation and the creation of a fundamentally new system, but as a deconstruction of its foundations. The author points out that the term “deconstruction”, introduced into modern philosophy by J. Derrida, suggests, on the one hand, an appeal to the origins, to the tradition at its very foundation, and the identification of the most significant components of this tradition, and on the other hand, a critical revision of the current state of the problem from the point of view of these origins, which seems to be the most adequate state of affairs in modern education and the its tasks.