Aesthetic education is the combination of aesthetic teaching and aesthetic teaching. Improving people's ability to know, understand, appreciate and create beauty through education is an important focus of cultivating socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor in the new period, and plays a unique and irreplaceable role in "educating people with morality". Among them, art is the most concentrated and typical form of aesthetic education.
Aesthetic education in socialist schools in China serves the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and the cultivation of students' spiritual beauty and behavioral beauty. Aesthetic education can promote students' all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique. It can improve students' thoughts and develop students' moral sentiments; It can enrich students' knowledge and develop their intelligence. It can improve people's physical and mental health and improve the quality of exercise; It can inspire students to love labor, love working people and carry out creative work.
Basic requirements of aesthetic education:
(1) Aesthetic education is a combination of ideology and artistry.
(2) The combination of emotional experience and logical thinking.
(3) The content of aesthetic education should be combined with students' real life.
(4) The artistic content and expression methods should be unified.
(5) Aesthetic education should teach students in accordance with their aptitude on the premise of all-round development.
(6) Attention should be paid to the age characteristics of students in the process of aesthetic education.
Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Aesthetic Education