Moral education is the soul of school work, which devotes itself to cultivating students' ideological and moral character and personality quality, embodies the fundamental purpose of school education, runs through all aspects of moral education, intellectual education, physical education and aesthetic education, and commands the whole school education. It plays a guiding, driving and ensuring role in the healthy growth of young students and school work.

First, the significance of moral education in school education

It plays a guiding, driving and ensuring role in the healthy growth of young students and school work. Moral education in primary schools is the basic project of socialist spiritual civilization construction, the basic education to improve the ideological and moral quality of the whole nation, and the starting point for cultivating qualified citizens.

Importance: Under the pressure of exam-oriented education, family and school education almost all emphasize intelligence and ignore moral education, so that countless people think that teenagers today are a beat generation and an unbearable generation.

Second, the concept of moral education goals

The goal of moral education is to achieve the overall normative requirements of the formation and development of the moral quality of the educated through moral education activities, that is, the quality standard of the expected purpose or result to be achieved by moral education activities. The goal of moral education is the starting point of moral education, which not only determines the content, form and method of moral education, but also restricts the basic process of moral education.

Extended knowledge

1. Moral education in a broad sense refers to all activities that have a purposeful and planned impact on social members politically, ideologically and morally, including social moral education, community moral education, school moral education and family moral education.

2. Moral education in a narrow sense refers to school moral education. Moral education in schools refers to an educational activity in which educators exert ideological, political and moral influence on the educated purposefully, systematically and according to certain social or class requirements, and through the active understanding, experience and practice of the educated, they form the moral quality required by certain society and class, that is, the activities in which educators cultivate the moral quality of the educated purposefully.