The article considers such concepts as tolerance and legal literacy, analyzes the formation of the concept of "tolerance". The role and importance of the educational environment and legal literacy in the formation of tolerant youth are revealed, and the main ways of improving legal literacy among youngpeople and schoolchildren, solving the problems of legal illiteracy of the younger generation are listed. In our opinion, the relevance of considering the issue of tolerance is related to the globality of the issue under study, since public order and international peaceful coexistence depend on a tolerant society. The hostility of different groups, nations, and states becomes the cause of internecine strife, numerous wars that have been going on for a long time. In our opinion, legal literacy acts as a locomotive in ensuring a high level of tolerance among the younger generation, and therefore, in the future, of the whole society, which has a positive effect on interethnic, interethnic, interfaith and international relations throughout the world as a whole. This article also highlights ways to achieve a tolerant attitude of young people towards each other in the process of gaining knowledge, improving the level of legal knowledge, skills and abilities, where each teacher sets himself the goal of forming a tolerant attitude among students towards different opinions, views, foundations, etc.