As the most important content and way to implement aesthetic education in schools, art education has attracted more and more attention with its unique functions and values. However, for a long time, people's limited understanding of aesthetic education and art education has been one of the key factors restricting the healthy development of school art education. Some places and schools do not put art education in its proper position; Some students tend to pay attention to a few special students and ignore all students, tend to ignore classroom teaching in art competitions, tend to ignore humanistic quality in skill training, and tend to show their achievements and ignore the educational process. Some have the phenomenon of pursuing "specialization", "adult" and "fashion"; Others just regard art education as a kind of "display" and "window" to create publicity effect. Therefore, establishing a correct view of art education is a problem worthy of attention and in-depth discussion. In 20 10, the State Council and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan (20 10-2020), pointing out that it is necessary to "strengthen aesthetic education and cultivate students' good aesthetic taste and humanistic quality" and put forward "promoting students' all-round and individual development" and "exploring, discovering and cultivating innovative talents". School art education includes two areas: universal art education and professional art education. This paper discusses the former. Fairness: School art education for all students includes three aspects: art courses, art practice activities and campus culture construction. It is the basic way to implement aesthetic education and an organic part of quality education. School art education is not an elite education for a few students with artistic talent, nor a vocational skill education aimed at job hunting, but a quality education for all students. It has the characteristics of stipulation, popularization and foundation, and should conform to the physical and mental characteristics and growth laws of students of all ages. Now, the concept of educational equity has been widely recognized. School art education is not to train artists, but to train people with all-round development. Our school should give every student a fair chance to receive high-quality art education. The school's artistic activities and performances are not only a stage for exhibition, but also a platform for education. We should pay attention to the needs of every student and provide them with opportunities to meet the needs of personality development. Only in this way can we improve the quality and cultivation of our whole nation and reflect the fairness of education. At present, the basic education curriculum reform, the art education reform experiment in rural schools, and the "National Education System Reform Pilot Project-School Music Education New System Training Course" organized by the Central Conservatory of Music are all practicing and transmitting this concept. Orientation: School art education with distinct value orientation must adhere to the socialist core value system and have a distinct orientation. School art education is different from social mass art and mass entertainment art. It should highlight the characteristics of educating people and lead teenagers to be "true, kind, beautiful and uplifting" with excellent humanistic art. Children's innocence, youthful vigor and high spirits are exactly the aesthetic orientation that school art education should protect, express and pay attention to. School art education is an important spiritual lactation for young students, which has a subtle influence. School art education should enable young people to be nourished by noble and healthy culture and art from childhood, and implant the genes of truth, goodness and beauty into their souls. The purpose of school art education is to lay the foundation for students' lifelong development and happy life. Therefore, it is necessary to stimulate students' interests, impart basic knowledge and skills, cultivate students' ability to understand, interpret and appreciate art, and pay attention to guiding students to improve their aesthetic taste and build a spiritual home. School art education should abandon impetuousness, stay away from utility, guide students into a free and lofty mental state, and enjoy aesthetic pleasure and poetic pleasure. At present, some places, schools and parents let underage students learn Latin dance, rumba dance and belly dance, and participate in some programs where children imitate adult programs. Whether these contents and forms are in line with the healthy development of young students' body and mind deserves our serious consideration. Innovation: Cultivate students' imagination and innovative consciousness. Art education is not only an aesthetic education, but also an education to develop thinking in images and stimulate innovative consciousness. Studies have proved that art education helps to develop the potential of the right hemisphere of the brain and has a unique function in cultivating intuition, imagination and innovative consciousness. Many famous scientists attach great importance to the role of art education in cultivating innovative talents. Western developed countries also attach great importance to the value of art education in cultivating innovative talents. Taking the United States as an example, the launch of a Soviet satellite in 1960 triggered the reflection on education in the United States, and then formulated the "Manhattan Zero Plan"-strengthening art education and cultivating innovative ability; 20 1 1 a survey report in the United States holds that art education is the best breakthrough in education reform, and art education can cultivate innovative talents, which is the hope of the United States to "win the future." School art education is highly participatory and practical, so students should be encouraged to actively participate in art practice activities, feel the charm of art personally, and constantly enrich aesthetic experience. It is necessary to encourage whimsy through various artistic activities and cultivate the initiative and originality of thinking. Inheritance: It is the spiritual soil on which a nation lives, and it is also the invisible bond on which a nation inherits excellent culture and art.. Culture and art are integrated in the vitality, creativity and cohesion of a nation, which is the most lasting factor for the survival and development of a nation. It is the unshirkable responsibility of school art education to inherit Chinese excellent cultural traditions, carry forward the great national spirit and cultivate young people with the achievements of human civilization. Art education plays an important role in education, edification and infiltration, and has a long-term and fundamental impact on a person's lifelong development. At the same time, it is also the most important way and the most effective carrier to inherit Chinese excellent culture and art, and plays a fundamental role in building the common spiritual home of the Chinese nation. Through art education, we should educate young people about the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, so that the excellent culture of the Chinese nation can be passed down from generation to generation. (Wan Lijun Author: Northeast Normal University)