In modern Russia rhetoric is the subject of education in the school. In particular, the concept of rhetoric as a school subject is realized in textbooks for grades 1-11 T. A. Ladyzhenskaya. The main purpose of the school of rhetoric - teaching effective communication. In the school of rhetoric are included:
conceptual framework (the communicative situation, the types of communication, speech genres, their structural and stylistic features, etc.)
instrumental knowledge of how to work (type of instructions, recommendations, etc.);
ability to communicate (to analyze and evaluate communications, to implement the speech genre in accordance with the situation of communication, including the communicative task, the characteristics of the recipient, etc.);
moral and rhetorical ideas (responsibility for the spoken word, the importance of ownership of the word in the modern world, etc.).