Reflections on strengthening the humanistic quality education of college students in the new period

(A) the basic connotation of humanistic quality and the current situation of college students' humanistic quality

1. The basic connotation of humanistic quality. Humanism refers to various cultural phenomena in human society. Humanistic quality refers to a person's inherent quality composed of knowledge, ability, concept, emotion, will and other factors, which is mainly manifested in his personality, temperament and accomplishment, including cultural knowledge, moral sentiment, aesthetic accomplishment and pursuit of life realm, as well as personality traits such as psychological quality, way of thinking, interpersonal communication, emotion, outlook on life and value orientation.

2. The present situation of college students' humanistic quality. With the in-depth development of China's opening to the outside world and the establishment of a socialist market economy, various cultures and ideas are scouring each other, values are increasingly diversified, traditional culture is constantly losing, and various non-mainstream consciousness is constantly interfering. Coupled with the problems in our educational concept and system, the humanistic quality education of college students is facing severe challenges. Some college students have some problems in varying degrees, such as chaotic political beliefs, vague ideals and beliefs, distorted value orientation, weak sense of honesty, lack of social responsibility, weak spirit of hard struggle, poor concept of unity and cooperation, and poor psychological quality, which need our attention.

(B) Analysis of the reasons for the lack of humanistic quality of college students

1. The negative influence of foreign ideas and market economy is the realistic root of college students' lack of humanistic quality. At present, China is in a period of social transformation. We accept and blindly learn all kinds of foreign ideas and cultures uncritically, losing the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and paying too much attention to economic interests makes us ignore the education of humanistic quality. While enjoying more material life, college students have become more realistic and utilitarian. The concept of valuing wisdom over morality and academic qualifications over ability has also grown. This neglect of human nature will only make education utilitarian, instrumental and vulgar, and eventually lose the meaning of education.

2. Overspecialization of major setting, specialization and increasing employment pressure are the fundamental reasons for the lack of humanistic quality of college students. For a long time, China's education began to be divided into liberal arts and sciences from middle school, and in the higher education stage, the professional division was more detailed. As soon as students enter school, they are bound by their majors and confined to their own professional fields. With the increasing employment pressure, college students are either busy taking the postgraduate entrance examination, or busy passing the English exam, or busy mastering a skill without paying attention to the study of humanistic knowledge. The value created by human talent has not been fully used to guarantee human freedom, happiness and development. Modern people's increasingly barren spiritual home needs more humanistic care, and this specialization has led to the opposition between knowledge and humanistic spirit.

3. The lack and dilution of teachers' humanistic knowledge and humanistic spirit is the direct reason for the lack of humanistic quality of college students. The ideas of freedom, fairness, efficiency and competition brought by market economy have indeed broadened people's horizons and changed people's way of thinking. Under this background, some teachers' humanistic qualities began to decline, and many teachers were not interested in teaching and educating people, so they could not influence and inspire students with humanistic qualities such as "example" and "personality charm". Teachers' perfunctory attitude towards imparting knowledge, laissez-faire attitude towards students and excessive enthusiasm for the second occupation will inevitably affect the improvement of students' humanistic quality.

(C) the significance of strengthening the humanistic quality education of college students

College students are the future of the country and the pillars of the nation. Their scientific spirit, humanistic spirit and scientific and cultural quality not only affect their growth, but also affect the future and destiny of the country. Therefore, strengthening the humanistic quality education of college students in the new period plays an inestimable role in cultivating innovative talents, building an innovative country and building a harmonious society.

1. Strengthening the humanistic quality education of college students is the need to help college students know and understand the internal unity of "scientific spirit" and "humanistic spirit". The harmonious development of human social and natural can not be separated from the mutual influence and promotion of "scientific spirit" and "humanistic spirit" (here "scientific spirit" refers to the spirit of natural science, while "humanistic spirit" refers to people-oriented, respect for human nature and spiritual pursuit). On the one hand, without the restriction and guidance of humanistic spirit, science and technology cannot play its powerful instrumental role; On the other hand, the continuous development of scientific knowledge and scientific means provides strong support for realizing people's dominant position and value orientation, and coordinating the relationship between people, people and society, and people and nature. Strengthening the humanistic quality education of college students is to help them realize the internal unity of "scientific spirit" and "humanistic spirit", which is of great significance to the development of human society and people themselves.

2. Strengthening the humanistic quality education of college students is the need of cultivating innovative talents and building an innovative country. Vigorously develop philosophy and social sciences, promote the mutual penetration of philosophy and social sciences and natural sciences, and provide better theoretical guidance for building an innovative country. The philosophy and social sciences referred to here are the humanities. Cultivating college students into innovative talents needed by the motherland is inseparable from the study of scientific knowledge and the edification of humanistic quality. Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, solid foundation, wide knowledge, strong ability and high exercise quality are the basic prerequisites for their success, and the stories of scientists who have made achievements at home and abroad have repeatedly explained this truth. The great cause of building an innovative country needs the patriotic spirit of caring for the motherland and self-dedication, the exploration spirit of daring to climb the peak, the team spirit of unity and cooperation and indifference to fame and fortune. The cultivation of these spirits is also inseparable from the humanistic quality education at the university level.

3. Strengthening the humanistic quality education of college students is the need to establish Scientific Outlook on Development and build a harmonious socialist society. Scientific Outlook on Development is a concentrated expression of the world outlook and methodology guiding development, and a major strategic thought emphasized by the Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee and the Central Economic Work Conference in 2006. The improvement of humanistic quality helps college students to firmly establish Scientific Outlook on Development, actively contribute to the construction of a harmonious society, promote college students to deeply understand the basic connotation and historical background of Scientific Outlook on Development, further improve their ability to implement the concept of people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development, and promote sound and rapid economic and social development.

(D) Thoughts on further strengthening the humanistic quality education of college students

As far as its goal is concerned, humanistic education is to cultivate people with profound knowledge, freedom of thought, independent personality and perfect mind. It leads the social fashion, leads the humanistic value tendency of individuals and society, and shapes the national spirit. Strengthening the humanistic quality education of college students should be considered from the following aspects.

1. Insist on arming young college students with the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism and strengthen philosophical quality education. Philosophical quality education is the core of humanistic quality education. Marxist philosophy is the scientific world outlook and methodology of the proletariat. We should take more active and effective ways to help college students firmly establish dialectical materialism and historical materialism, learn to analyze the real society and history with dialectical thinking, and understand the relationship between independent individuals and nature, individuals and social groups. By strengthening the education of world outlook, outlook on life and values, college students can understand the world scientifically and comprehensively, deeply understand the meaning of life, develop good values and form independent personality. When a person is constantly improving, developing, possessing Marxist philosophy and integrating with society, he is full of vitality, so that his life is meaningful and he has scientific humanistic spirit.

2. Enrich and improve the cultural knowledge of college students, and strengthen the education of scientific spirit and attitude. Science is the most basic life concept, cognitive method and thinking method of human beings, and it provides an important value premise for human spiritual construction with a serious attitude. General Secretary Hu Jintao pointed out that to build China into an innovative country in about 15 years, a large number of talents with scientific spirit and attitude are needed. As the future builders and successors of the motherland, college students need us to strengthen the education of scientific spirit and attitude, spread scientific knowledge, scientific methods, scientific ideas and scientific spirit, consolidate the knowledge base, improve the knowledge structure, enrich the knowledge reserve, enable college students to better accept the armed forces of science and technology, and further form a social fashion of stressing science, loving science, learning science and using science, and put it into practice.

3. Give full play to the educational function of campus culture and strengthen the education of basic skills and aesthetic ability. The construction of campus culture has a subtle influence on the cultivation of students' humanistic quality, which can be used as a supplement and extension of classroom education. The campus culture of colleges and universities is rich and colorful, which provides a broad space for the development of college students. University administrators should make full use of the educational function of campus culture, and constantly improve college students' dedication, ability to serve the society, ability to communicate and express, and calligraphy level by carrying out activities such as social practice, exhibition of community culture, young volunteers, science and culture art festival, "Challenge Cup" contest, literature appreciation, and popularization of "three principles" (physiology, psychology and morality).

4. Vigorously carry forward the new fashion of socialist morality and strengthen the education of socialist concept of honor and disgrace. Moral education is an important part of humanistic quality education. To strengthen moral education, we should organize college students to thoroughly study and implement the Implementation Outline of Civic Morality Construction, extensively carry out education on social morality, professional ethics and family virtues, firmly establish the socialist concept of honor and disgrace with "eight honors and eight disgraces" as the main content advocated by Comrade Hu Jintao, and guide college students to consciously abide by the moral norms of patriotism, law-abiding, understanding, honesty, unity and friendship, hard work and self-improvement and dedication. He also called on young people to inherit the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation and reflect the new morality required by the progress of the times.

5. Improve teachers' humanistic quality and strengthen teachers' moral education. Teachers are the key to the implementation of humanistic quality education. Teachers should not only impart knowledge, but also mold students' noble hearts and cultivate their independent personality. Therefore, teachers should pay attention to the improvement of their own humanistic quality, pay attention to the cultivation of political thought, moral quality, academic attitude, manners and so on. Through the combination of teachers' morality construction and humanistic quality education, through setting an example, commending the advanced, communicating and learning from each other, the humanistic quality of all teachers is improved, so as to cultivate more and more outstanding college students with good humanistic quality.

The final product of education is the formation of personality, that is, the cultivation of students' "spiritual adults". Therefore, in the process of higher education, schools should fully realize the role of humanistic quality education in the process of talent training, actively explore and improve the educational model, promote the all-round development of college students, and cultivate more talents with high quality, strong ability and innovative spirit for building an innovative country and realizing harmonious social development.