Modern humanistic education thought is an educational trend prevailing in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. It takes people's "self-realization" as the ultimate goal and advocates the harmonious development of people's personality; Emphasis on cultivating people's integrity, comprehensiveness and creativity; Advocate the application of humanities courses and teaching methods in the education process to stimulate students' learning enthusiasm and creativity. Modern humanistic educational thought has created a free and relaxed learning atmosphere, which has had a far-reaching impact on educational practice in the United States and even the world. Modern humanistic education thought is a popular educational trend in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. It inherits the long-standing tradition of humanistic education in the west, advocates the harmonious development of human personality, and is deeply influenced by various humanistic thoughts revived in the 20th century. Modern humanistic education thought is based on modern humanistic philosophy and psychology, emphasizing the cultivation of human integrity, comprehensiveness and creativity; Advocate the application of humanities courses and teaching methods in the education process, stimulate students' learning enthusiasm and creativity, and create a free and relaxed learning atmosphere. Modern humanistic educational thought has had a far-reaching influence on western educational thoughts, educational ideas, educational purposes, educational contents and educational methods. First of all, an overview of humanistic education thought. Humanistic education in the west is a constantly developing concept. Generally speaking, it has experienced the emergence and influence of classical humanistic education, humanistic education and modern humanistic education thoughts, mainly aiming at the fact that the United States only attached importance to students' knowledge structure and ignored students' physical and mental development in the curriculum reform in the 1960s. Modern humanistic education thought inherits the western humanistic education tradition, respects students' value, freedom, morality, rationality and emotion, takes people's "self-realization" as the educational goal, cultivates students' sound personality, and puts forward education and teaching methods that adapt to the laws of students' physical and mental development. In the choice of teaching content, modern humanistic education thought takes students' needs as the core and pays attention to the unity of course content, so that students' emotional development and self-cognitive development can be coordinated and unified. China is now vigorously promoting quality education, so that students not only have professional subject knowledge and skills, but also cultivate students into high-quality talents with the ability to adapt to the rapidly changing society. Pay attention to the development of students' potential, the cultivation of noble morality, and the formation of correct outlook on life and values in the teaching process. This requires that teaching must adapt to people's needs and emphasize people-oriented, rather than people adapting to the teaching process. He has a good stone on Fangshan, which can be used to cut jade. The educational purpose, educational content and teaching methods put forward by the new humanistic educational thought provide reference for the current educational and teaching reform in China.