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Keyword: «compassion»

The article discusses the role of books and art in the development of empathic abilities of primary school age. Presents an analysis of approaches to the phenomenon of empathy, its relationship to experience, emotional responsiveness, a phenomenon that could have an influence on the formation of humane feelings, human relationships with "support" to "life with a hero".
The article is devoted to actual problem of formation of Patriotic values of young people.The article shows the mechanisms of the selection of values by the cultural code; the principles of the work of its elements - empathy and patriotism on the formation of spiritual and moral values among young people - are analyzed. The author comes to the conclusion that the spiritual-patriotic component is necessary to be included in the modern model of education as mandatory.