College students' military training and military theory study is an important part of national defense education in colleges and universities, and it is also one of the important contents of patriotism education. National defense education, scientific and cultural education, ideological and moral education and psychological quality education are both related and different. The school's national defense education is embodied in centralized military training, military theory courses and various forms of national defense education at different levels, as well as extracurricular lectures, competitions, military summer camps and other military sports activities, which provide a new carrier for college students to become talents in an all-round way. It not only contributes to the formation of good moral character, but also broadens the knowledge of college students and strengthens their physique. In this sense, it plays an irreplaceable role in other forms of education.

Contemporary college students are active, flexible and receptive, especially those who have just entered the university. They are full of curiosity and longing for the university, and the university period is a crucial period for the transformation and formation of world outlook, outlook on life and values. There is a vast space for national defense education in colleges and universities, so that students can receive systematic national defense education in military courses and give full play to the role of national defense education in students' quality education.

Through the training of basic military skills, we can hone our will and improve our physical fitness and mental outlook. Studying hard in the cold window for more than ten years has kept them in a state of mental work for a long time. Coupled with various subjective and objective factors, there are widespread problems such as fragile psychological quality, poor eyesight and poor physical quality. Military training in colleges and universities is an integral part of higher education, and its centralized training has the characteristics of rigor, tension, unity and order. This is a challenge for college students who have just left home. Military training has well cultivated their spirit of tenacious struggle and collective cooperation, enhanced their organizational discipline and sense of collective honor, and laid a good foundation for their college life and even their future work life.

Learning military theory plays an important role in improving students' knowledge structure. Every country and nation starts from its own security and applies its latest scientific and technological achievements to national defense. By learning modern military scientific knowledge, college students can personally feel the application of their majors and knowledge in the military field, which greatly stimulates their enthusiasm and consciousness of learning modern scientific and cultural knowledge and enhances their awareness of challenging difficulties and climbing scientific peaks.

The teaching methods and means of military courses in colleges and universities are advanced and flexible. At present, the national defense education in colleges and universities basically combines theory with practice, military training with military theory, and makes teaching courseware by using multimedia teaching and combining teaching contents and requirements, which is vivid, enhances students' perceptual knowledge, provides the latest, fastest and most advanced information, and stimulates students' patriotic enthusiasm. Extracurricular national defense education activities are flexible and diverse, and the combination of knowledge and interest makes students have a strong interest, which ensures that national defense education has a stable and long-term function in colleges and universities.

"National Defense Education Law" points out: "National defense education in schools is the basis of national defense education for the whole people and an important part of implementing quality education." It is an important link to improve students' all-round quality to carry out national defense education activities in colleges and universities by students' military training, military theory teaching and extracurricular multi-level and multi-forms, and it is of far-reaching significance to do a good job in national defense education in colleges and universities.

Students are the reserve force of national defense construction. With the rapid development of military high technology, the future war is the competition between technology and talents. It is far from enough to train these talents only by military academies, and so are local academies. Young students are an important part of society and the most vivid and energetic group. Their quality and national defense concept will play a huge "radiation" role in society. As a reserve soldier, it is of great significance to improve the cultural and technological structure of modern soldiers.

Students are the future of the motherland. The moral behavior, will and morality accumulated through national defense education in schools penetrate into all fields of society, which is helpful to form good social morality and become a modern socialist newcomer in 2 1 century. It is a major event that benefits the country and the people and concerns the long-term stability of the country. Therefore, it is of far-reaching practical significance to offer military courses in colleges and universities.