The ultimate goal of moral education is to improve moral personality and quality of life, and the basic pursuit is to give full play to the subjectivity of moral learning. The basic problems of moral education principles such as the category, essence and function, object, purpose, method, subject and social environment of moral education in schools are discussed one by one.

This paper takes moral education as the main line, but links ideological and political education, belief construction and cultivation related to moral cultivation, which not only avoids the confusion of subject logic, but also takes care of the comprehensiveness of actual moral education.

As an original field of moral education, it has the mission of studying general theoretical problems in the field of school moral education. The principle of moral education is a basic course for education majors, which has the nature of guiding education majors to fully understand the theory of moral education.

The principle of moral education is one of the main forms of moral education theory (mainly including moral education thought, moral education theory, moral education and moral education principle). To understand the principle of moral education, we must understand what moral education is. Moral education in a broad sense refers to all activities that have a purposeful and planned impact on social members politically, ideologically and morally, including social moral education, community moral education, school moral education and family moral education. ?

Moral education in a narrow sense refers to school moral education. Moral education in schools refers to an educational activity in which educators exert ideological, political and moral influence on the educated purposefully, systematically and according to certain social or class requirements, and through the active understanding, experience and practice of the educated, they form the moral quality required by certain society and class, that is, the activities in which educators cultivate the moral quality of the educated purposefully.