1. Directional principle: Moral education should be ideal and directional, and guide students to develop in the right direction.

2. The principle of unity of knowing and doing: In the process of moral education, educators should not only pay attention to systematic ideological and moral theory education for students, but also pay attention to organizing students to participate in practical exercises, combining awareness-raising with behavior development, so that students can teach by example.

3. The principle of combining respect, trust and strict demands on students: In the process of moral education, educators should respect, trust and love students, set strict demands on students, organically combine strictness and love, and urge educators' reasonable demands to be transformed into students' conscious actions.

4. The principle of consistency and coherence in education: In moral education, educators should actively coordinate various educational forces, unify their understanding and pace, educate students in a planned, systematic and orderly manner, give full play to the overall effectiveness of education, and cultivate students' correct ideological and moral character.

5. Principle of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude: In the process of moral education, educators should educate students according to their age characteristics, personality differences and the actual situation of ideological and moral development, guide students and enhance the pertinence and effectiveness of moral education.

6. The principle of combining collective education with individual education: Educators should be good at organizing and educating students to love the collective, and rely on collective education to educate every student, and at the same time promote the formation and development of the collective through the education of individual students, thus organically combining collective education with individual education.

7. The principle of combining positive factors with overcoming negative factors: Educators should mobilize students' enthusiasm for self-education, rely on and carry forward their own positive factors, overcome their own moral negative factors, and realize the transformation of internal contradictions in moral development.

8. Persuasion principle: Persuasion principle means that moral education should focus on persuasion and persuasion, starting with improving students' understanding, mobilizing students' initiative and making them positive.