Аннотация
The article deals with the problems of education of Kazakh children.The state of education in Kazakhstan at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is shown on the basis of the study and analysis of the heritage of the Alash intelligentsia.Criticizing the policy of the autocracy in the sphere of education, advanced members of the Kazakh society observed the backwardness of the school system, oppression of attempts to introduce new methods of instruction, russification.Representatives of «Alash» in the initial period of Soviet construction, hoped for improvement in the field of education.However, along with the spread of general literacy, many difficulties arose to achieve the goal that the Alash intelligentsia tried to overcome.