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, which refers to the activities that educators purposefully form the moral quality of the educated, including ideological education, political education and moral education.

3. Moral education: refers to the education that uses moral norms to cultivate, form and develop the moral quality of the educated, so that they have certain moral quality.

4. Ideological education: refers to the education that inspires and arms the educated with certain ideological and moral concepts to form a certain world outlook, outlook on life and values.

5. Political education: refers to the education that forms the educated's certain political views, beliefs and political beliefs.

The purpose of moral education:

1. Cultivate students' moral cognition and judgment ability: moral education should pay attention to the teaching of moral knowledge and norms, and at the same time cultivate students' moral judgment ability, so that they can correctly understand and understand moral problems and make correct moral choices.

2. Cultivate students' moral emotion and moral consciousness: Moral education should focus on cultivating students' moral emotion and moral consciousness, including sympathy, sense of good and evil, sense of justice and sense of responsibility, so that students can have positive emotional attitudes and moral values.

3. Cultivate students' moral behaviors and habits: Moral education should focus on cultivating students' moral behaviors and habits, including honesty and trustworthiness, respect for others, thrift, self-discipline and self-control. Let students develop good behavior habits and become moral and responsible people.

4. Cultivate students' civic awareness and civic literacy: Moral education should focus on cultivating students' civic awareness and civic literacy, including national awareness, legal awareness and social responsibility, so that students can become socially responsible citizens and actively participate in social life.

5. Cultivate students' ideological quality and outlook on life: Moral education should focus on cultivating students' ideological quality and outlook on life, including a positive attitude towards life, respect for the humanitarian spirit of life, and a sense of responsibility for society and family, so that students can have a positive outlook on life and values.