Self-education refers to the process in which individuals actively put forward the goal of moral cultivation and try to improve or cultivate their personality with practical actions. It is the expression of self-conscious initiative of personal moral cultivation, which is produced on the basis of the development of self-evaluation ability. It is the highest realm and ultimate goal of education and an effective means to cultivate talents. College students' self-education refers to the ideological reform and behavior control activities that college students consciously carry out in order to form good moral quality. It is also a self-cultivation activity to achieve the goal of self-development and a necessary condition for college students to improve their comprehensive quality and become talents as soon as possible. Soviet modern educator Suhomlinski emphasized: "Without self-education, there is no real education." It can be said that all education includes the teaching of educators and the self-education of the educated. The two are inseparable. And individual self-education is the basis for all kinds of education to play a role. College students should be aware of the practical significance of strengthening self-education. Today, with the increasing self-awareness of human beings and the increasing awareness of social democracy, college students should strengthen self-education if they want to become a new generation with ideals, morality, culture and discipline. It is a very valuable choice in life to establish lofty social ideals and positive consciousness of subject participation. However, due to the lack of social experience and life experience, college students have not yet formed a relatively stable world outlook, outlook on life and values, so in the face of complex international and domestic situations, they will have a certain degree of blindness and confusion in their thinking. Therefore, in this case, college students should make clear their ideological and political goals through self-education and then realize them. At present, social development is advancing by leaps and bounds, and technology is changing with each passing day. Only by constantly enhancing their self-education ability can college students correctly understand the society, face up to the reality and get out of the narrow circle of "self" after graduation, so as to better serve the society and the motherland. College students should know the ways and means of self-education. First of all, college students should learn self-supervision, which occupies a special position in self-education. Self-monitoring is based on self-esteem, sense of honor and sense of responsibility, and mainly checks one's behavior through self-analysis, reflection and introspection. Only by becoming a person with a high sense of self-esteem, honor and responsibility can we monitor both our external behavior and our ideological motivation and way of thinking. We should not only be cautious in public, but also abide by moral requirements when we are alone, and don't do anything that hurts our conscience and the public. Secondly, college students should actively participate in social practice activities, which is an important way to "tide over difficulties, see the world, increase their talents and make contributions". Most college students lack social practice, in-depth understanding and real experience of society, so it is very necessary to participate in social practice activities. Finally, college students should attach importance to daily practical activities. College students should realize that lofty ideals should be realized by ordinary career, noble morality should be cultivated in daily behavior, profound knowledge should be accumulated by unremitting diligence, and strict discipline should be exercised in daily life. In short, only by constantly strengthening self-education can college students become useful materials for the country as soon as possible.