The two are actually the difference between big concepts and small concepts. According to the establishment standard of China's ideological system, ideological and political education contains the content of moral education. Therefore, moral education institutions in general schools (student offices and psychological counseling centers in colleges and universities, moral education offices and psychological counseling rooms in primary and secondary schools) are directly led by party committees and youth league committees responsible for ideological work;

ideological and political education

Ideological and political education is a social practice in which a society or a social group exerts a purposeful, planned and organized influence on its members with certain ideological concepts, political views and moral norms, so as to form an ideological and moral quality that meets certain social requirements;

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.