The core of patriotism education for middle school students is to stimulate patriotic feelings and establish national self-esteem, self-confidence and pride. It also includes loving China, the People's Liberation Army and socialist education.

In addition, we must prevent extreme and narrow nationalist tendencies and combine patriotism education with internationalism education to enhance world peace and international understanding, with the goal of strengthening communication, exchanges and cooperation between countries and safeguarding the common interests of mankind.

2. Ideal and traditional education

The ideal education of middle school students focuses on making students have goals for the future, while the traditional education focuses on making students understand history and have a sense of historical mission. The combination of the two can prevent students from being content with the status quo and not striving for progress. Instead, they have a sense of historical mission, which can enable them to constantly strive to surpass the status quo.

Among them, we should pay attention to guiding students to establish ideals based on reality, including life ideals, career ideals and social ideals; Secondly, in order to realize the ideal, we should have a reasonable life plan and put it into practice; Thirdly, we should coordinate the relationship between personal ideal and organizational team and social development.

3. Collectivism education

The basic content of middle school students' collectivism education is to love the collective, care for the collective, safeguard the collective honor, obey the collective decision, abide by the collective rules and be responsible for the tasks they undertake. The core content is to educate students to correctly understand and handle the relationship between individuals and collectives, and to understand the principle that when there is a contradiction between individual interests and collective interests, collective interests should be the most important.

In addition, when there is a conflict of interest between a small group and a large group (school or country), students should also be educated not to make mistakes or even endanger others and the country just to safeguard the narrow interests of the small group.

4. Labor education

Middle school students' labor education should make students understand the principle of "no pains, no gains", encourage students to combine their scientific and cultural knowledge with scientific labor, form a good habit of active exploration and diligent hands-on, and require students to love labor and respect the quality of labor and the achievements of laborers.

5, discipline and legal education

Middle school students' discipline and legal education focuses on educating students to be familiar with the basic laws that qualified citizens in modern society should abide by, as well as the school rules and regulations of primary and secondary school students in China, to recognize the relationship between rights and obligations, democracy and centralism, freedom and discipline, to establish legal awareness, and to form the habit of obeying laws and regulations.

The legal education of middle school students should be long-term, carried out frequently and in various forms to meet the needs; We should also pay attention to the education of the seriousness of legal consequences, and educate students with cases around us to achieve the role of warning.

6. Education of dialectical materialist world outlook and outlook on life

This is the highest realm of moral education. The education of dialectical materialism world outlook and outlook on life includes: understanding life, planning life, coordinating the relationship between people, people and society, and people and nature.