National defense consciousness education is the proper meaning of college students' core values education and the basic content of quality education. To carry out national defense education in colleges and universities, we should change the concept of "emphasizing skills over consciousness", take patriotism as the core, guide college students to closely link the realization of self-worth with the fate of the country and the nation, internalize national defense consciousness and quality into personal basic quality, and turn it into a powerful spiritual power that loves the motherland and dares to sacrifice for the country and the nation. Therefore, on the one hand, we should coordinate teaching, scientific research and national defense education, give strong support to national defense awareness education from the aspects of system, environment, teachers and funds, and form a scientific operating mechanism. On the other hand, it is necessary to promote college students' national defense awareness education into textbooks, classrooms and minds, so as to achieve educational planning, curriculum arrangement, teacher teaching, textbook guidance and effective assessment, effectively enhance the attraction and appeal of education, and truly make national defense awareness education implemented and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In addition, effective measures should be taken to urge all localities to regard the national defense awareness education of college students as an important task of colleges and universities, so as to realize the balanced development and effective promotion of national defense education.
In a word, college students are the key objects of national defense education and one of the bridges and ties of national defense consciousness education. We should fully understand the far-reaching significance of strengthening college students' national defense consciousness education, and face the objective situation that college students' national defense consciousness is relatively weak and national defense education pays more attention to skills than consciousness. We should take patriotism as the theme, core values and quality education as the goal, establish a long-term mechanism as the key, and take extensive resources as the platform and base to build an all-round national defense awareness education system for college students, and rely on it to radiate and drive the whole society to form a strong atmosphere of caring for, loving and building national defense.