Abstract
On the basis of sociological polls it is shown that currently stable trend expressed in decrease of students’ motivation to acquisition real knowledge takes place in the Kazakhstan higher education in this report. Causes of this trend are not fully identified up to now; furthermore, scientific and pedagogical community doesn’t pay enough attention to this fact. Mechanisms of formation of above-mentioned negative trends are considered in this work as well as recommendations for their overcoming. Decreasing of students’ interest in learning first of all is caused by a number of the steady mythologems that have taken roots in mass consciousness in Kazakhstan. Mentioned mythologems were created during the transitional period from planned economy to the market one; thus observed crisis phenomenon may be considered as an example of post-transitional crisis.