The forgotten old in modern pedagogical practice

Based on the analysis of the current state of pedagogical science and practice, a number of topical issues are identified that require further study and expansion of practical implementation of ethnopedagogical achievements in the educational activities of higher education. Modern pedagogy increasingly forgets about the previous historical experience of teaching and upbringing. “Innovative” technologies are declared, which actually turn out to be ancient humanitarian technologies. This includes private teaching, in the form of working in pairs. Upon careful analysis, it turns out that this form of education took place in ancient times in folk pedagogy. Paired learning was used in the middle school of the 20th century and has not lost its popularity nowadays. We conclude that the content of the educational process of higher education can be modernized by including innovations based on traditional ethnopedagogical technologies. Among them, special attention is paid to individual and group teaching, which has received new forms and areas of application in modern pedagogical methodology. We share the experience of using learning in pairs in the process of teaching foreign languages to students of the University under the Interparliamentary Assembly of EurAsEC. This technology allows graduates to improve their level of training and acquire skills of effective intercultural communication.