Patriotism is an important part of the main theme of socialist spiritual civilization construction, and it is also the basic requirement of cultivating new people with four qualities in China. It is of great significance to strengthen patriotism education among students in higher vocational colleges, cultivate their patriotic thoughts and feelings and improve their patriotic consciousness. Patriotism is a glorious tradition of the Chinese nation, a great force to promote China's social progress, a common spiritual pillar of the people of all ethnic groups, an important part of the main theme of socialist spiritual civilization construction, and a basic requirement for cultivating new people with four talents in China. Patriotism education is a basic national education in China and an important theme of higher education. It is of great significance to strengthen patriotism education among students in higher vocational colleges, cultivate their patriotic thoughts and feelings and improve their patriotic consciousness. 1. Patriotism is the basic project to improve the quality of college students. Patriotism education is national education, with emphasis on teenagers. Schools are the main places for patriotic education. Higher vocational education is an organic part of higher education and an important place for patriotism education. Patriotism education should run through the whole process of teaching and educating people. However, in real life, due to the increasing diversity of social and economic components, organizational forms, material interests and employment methods, the independence, selectivity, variability and differences of people's ideological activities have obviously increased; The weakness of market economic activities and its negative effects are reflected in ideology and interpersonal relationships, which easily lead to liberalism, decentralism, money worship, hedonism and egoism. Most students in the school are young people. They are in the stage of rapid maturity but not really mature, and their learning task is arduous. In addition, the "cramming education" they have accepted for many years lacks the ability to distinguish right from wrong, and their world outlook, outlook on life and values are easily influenced by bad atmosphere. Contemporary college students are the mainstay of China in the future. Their ideological quality directly affects the quality of China in the future. Cultivating their patriotic spirit and improving their patriotic consciousness will help them to establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values, link their personal interests with the future and destiny of the country, correctly handle the interests of the country, the collective and the individual, and study hard for the country and the nation. Second, patriotism education is the motivation for students to complete their studies. Higher vocational education focuses on cultivating students' skill operation level. Judging from the students' own situation, the quality is uneven, the phenomenon of weariness is common, and the class hours are few, so it is not easy to complete their studies. Therefore, some people think that strengthening patriotism education among students in higher vocational colleges will affect their studies, but this understanding is seriously "putting the cart before the horse". Young students should not only "bury their heads in pulling carts" but also "look up at the road". Patriotism education can inspire young students to serve the country and study harder, thus becoming the motivation for students to complete their studies. At present, college students lack a deep understanding of the motherland. Some survey data show that they really don't know much about the history of the motherland, the tradition of the Chinese nation and the basic theories of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought. Therefore, they lack understanding of the decadent nature of feudal old China and capitalism, sometimes they can't scientifically analyze and correctly treat some problems in history and reality, and are prone to all kinds of prejudices. Therefore, the key to patriotism education is to help college students understand the past, present and future of the motherland through various effective ways, so as to urge them to cherish the glorious history of the Chinese nation and believe that the Chinese nation will always stand among the nations of the world. With more and more countries' recognition and accession to the WTO, globalization has become the general trend, and China has become an indispensable member on the world stage. On this stage, how to play your role successfully and remain invincible requires the efforts of each of us. They must first understand the situation they are facing from the ideological level: although our country has a splendid civilization, it is still in a backward state; Although our country has made achievements and been recognized by the world, some hostile forces still have great hostility to the socialist system, so we should keep a clear head, consciously safeguard the achievements of revolution and construction and safeguard the stability and unity of the motherland. At present, the world has entered the era of knowledge economy with intelligence and knowledge as the elements of resources and productivity. Facing this opportunity and challenge. They should establish the concept of lifelong learning, broaden their knowledge, widely absorb new knowledge and technology, improve their knowledge structure and update their methods and concepts of learning knowledge. Thirdly, patriotism education runs through the whole process of college students' study. To carry out patriotism education among students in higher vocational colleges, we must make overall plans, create a strong patriotic cultural atmosphere, and let students be infected and edified by patriotic thoughts and spirits anytime and anywhere in campus life. First of all, we should make full use of classroom teaching methods to combine teaching with history and tradition; Combined with teaching, the outstanding contributions of patriotic national heroes, scientists and artists are emphasized. On the great achievements of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries in combination with teaching; Combine teaching with the rapid development of socialist construction and the incomparably correct principles and policies of the party; Combine patriotism theory, lofty ideals and struggle spirit in teaching, and so on. Secondly, patriotism education should run through all the activities of the college to form a strong campus atmosphere. Patriotism is a kind of emotional education and formative education. While insisting on classroom teaching as the main channel, we should also make patriotic education in other activities planned, regular and systematic. In addition to classroom teaching, some activities should be held, such as national education in combination with class meetings; Introduce the glorious history of the motherland and the great construction achievements since the reform and opening up through radio, blackboard newspaper and publicity window; Guide students to watch TV programs such as news and conduct social surveys, so that they can feel the rapid development of the four modernizations of the motherland. Creating a strong patriotic atmosphere, so that students are often infected and edified by patriotic thoughts and patriotism, will certainly be conducive to the cultivation of students' feelings and habits. Finally, patriotism education should combine on-campus education with off-campus education. To educate students in patriotism, we should first give full play to the role of the classroom as the main channel, and form an elegant and patriotic campus cultural atmosphere through a series of colorful and positive extracurricular activities. At the same time, we should fully tap and make use of all factors in off-campus education that are conducive to the growth of young people, so as to coordinate on-campus education with off-campus education and jointly accomplish the historical mission of cultivating a new generation. For example, parent schools should be established to give full play to the complementary role of school education and family education in students' growth, improve the consistency of family education and school education, and enhance the synergy of education. By participating in social practice activities, students can understand the society, enhance their sense of mission of loving and building their hometown, and make the education on campus continue to extend to the outside. The cooperation between school education and social environment is important, but the internal factors such as self-realization, ideal realization and hard work of higher vocational students are also important. As a school moral education, we must mobilize students' enthusiasm through effective indoctrination education, organically combine it with students' self-education, and make education really effective. Study hard to revitalize China today and contribute to the brilliant future of the motherland tomorrow.