This article analyzes the opposing views of scientists on the problem of digital education and digitization in education. One can see that digitalization is accompanied by commercialization of education and other negative aspects related to the mental health of the younger generation. These aspects are highly controversial. Dialectical methods of paired categories are used: essences and manifestations, content and form, transfer quantity to quality, unity and the struggle of opposites, etc. The term "digital economy" contains a dialectical contradiction. On the one hand, the economy demands freedom of development and gravitates towards liberal-market methods, avoids administrative methods. On the other hand, transition to the digital economy is managed process, contributing to the country's transition to the new technological order. The purpose of the article is to analyze this contradiction and emerging problems. The arbiter of all disputes around education is the state. Only the state determines which way education will develop.