On the Necessity of Ideological and Political Education —— Also on the Necessity of Strengthening the Ideological and Political Education of Contemporary Youth
About the author: Shi (1975-), female, economist.
The cultivation of teenagers' correct world outlook, values and outlook on life can only be accomplished through ideological and political education and guidance. The temperament characteristics of teenagers determine that the ideological and political education of teenagers should focus on all-round development, take participation in social practice as the key, take patient persuasion and enthusiastic persuasion as the main methods, and implement diversified and humanized education methods.
Keywords: the necessity of youth ideological and political education
Scientific research shows that young people are in an important life stage of quality optimization and creation, and they shoulder the historical responsibility of realizing modernization. At the same time, teenagers' realistic thoughts are immature and daunting, but as the future and hope of society, their ideological and political education is particularly important. Let's briefly talk about the ideological and political education of young people from several aspects.
1 the requirements of the times and the needs of social development
China is a poor country with a large population, relatively poor resources, underdeveloped science and technology and backward economy. But it is also a developing country that is rising rapidly and moving towards modernization. History has proved more than once that backwardness will lead to beatings. Today's China must be reformed. If we stop or slow down the pace of reform, China will once again miss the opportunity to become rich and strong. Since the end of World War II, the world has experienced several periods of economic development. The present stage is a critical historical development period. The impact of the world financial crisis and the appreciation of RMB have caused changes in economic development. China's economic development has become the center of world economic development. The development of the times requires us young people to be confident, self-reliant, self-reliant, enrich ourselves ideologically and politically, arm ourselves and innovate ourselves.
When the people are strong, the country is strong. If China wants to be rich and strong, it must rely on modern scientific and technological knowledge. However, whether it is the inheritance, creation, reproduction, dissemination or application of scientific and technological knowledge, talents are indispensable. Where talents come from, the most realistic and quickest way is from the ranks of our young people. How can I become a talent? Only through education, knowledge is like human body, and thought is human soul. In the era of knowledge economy, young people are required not only to have high knowledge, technology and professional ability, but also to have advanced ideas, noble moral sentiments and correct political direction. Establishing a correct world outlook, values and outlook on life is at the core of the composition of the moral system of teenagers, which provides a scientific position, viewpoint and method for the development of teenagers. Are young people right? Three views? Only through ideological and political education can the cultivation of students be completed. Only with correct ideological guidance can young people give full play to their knowledge and ability in the correct direction of socialist construction and make due contributions to the prosperity and civilization of China. The times need young people, and the development of China depends on the vast number of young talents. Young people should also shoulder the heavy responsibility entrusted by the motherland.
2 the needs of teenagers' own development
Nowadays, with abundant material living conditions, young people can get a better environment for physical development. The psychological development of young people needs a good educational environment. On the basis of ensuring physical development, young people have a strong thirst for knowledge. They are eager for scientific and technological knowledge, hoping to master more updated knowledge, realize their dreams of life and pursue self-worth in order to serve the motherland. They realize that only when they are strong can they be more magnificent. Only when the motherland is strong can they make great achievements and have a better environment to display their talents and obtain material and spiritual nutrition. The self-development of youth is to complete the optimization of quality and a lot of practical activities. If young people develop themselves well, their status in society will be higher and their role will be greater. This is also determined by their own ideological characteristics.
The ideological and temperament characteristics of teenagers determine that education must be strengthened.
3. 1 I hope the motherland will prosper and become an economic power.
Young people have a strong sense of the times and keen observation of problems. They love the Party and care about the modernization of the motherland. They have a strong sense of democracy and participation in politics. Have a strong sense of responsibility and mission. I have heard and witnessed the great achievements made by China in the past ten years of reform and opening up. Being in such an atmosphere and experience, let them realize that only when the country is rich and strong can our nation have hope and young people give full play to their talents.
3.2 Young people are active and flexible. Seeking novelty and difference is an important feature of young people's thoughts. They accept new ideas, know new things quickly, and react faster to the changes of the times. With the development of reform and opening up and the achievements of various constructions in the past decade, young people, especially college students, have been exposed to a lot of new scientific and technological knowledge and western culture. Coupled with the gradual democratization of politics, their thinking ability has been greatly improved. The thinking mode of contemporary young students has also developed from static, one-way and linear thinking to dynamic, network and dialectical thinking. The formation of multidimensional thinking and the establishment of creative thinking have made many young people's thinking active. They dare to question, imagine, explore and verify.
3.3 Young people pursue boldness and have a strong sense of competition.
The life of young people is rich and colorful. They have increased their knowledge, improved their ability, developed their own personality and enriched their lives from useful activities. Their pace of study and life accelerates with the acceleration of social life. In a short time, they tried to absorb more latest knowledge and information. Not satisfied with book knowledge, they dabble in various books and magazines, expand their knowledge, form their own reasonable knowledge structure, and participate in various social practice activities in their spare time. They boldly pursue the true meaning of beauty. Some young people have developed from paying attention to formal beauty and charm to temperament beauty and soul beauty, and from appreciating beauty to participating in the creation of beauty. Generally speaking, the advantages of young people are incomparable to those of other age groups. They are full of vigor and vitality, flexible in thinking, quick in reflection, active in thinking, not superstitious, not rigid, dare to think, dare to do and dare to speak. In particular, they have high political enthusiasm, care about the motherland, care about the quality of the party style and social atmosphere, and are willing to improve their ideological and moral quality in socialist construction. They play a vanguard and assault role on all fronts with their unique style, and are an indispensable and important force in the modernization of the motherland. China's reform and opening up, going to science and technology, and going to the world are inseparable from the efforts of contemporary youth.
3.4 Young people are immature. Young people are cocooning and pupating. They have no experience, simple experience, lack of knowledge, weak ability and lack of exercise in a difficult environment. His world outlook, outlook on life and values have not really formed. These shortcomings determine that young people are simple in thinking, idealistic, unstable in thinking and easily shaken when encountering difficulties and setbacks. This also determines that ideological and political education should focus on this group. Their immaturity is mainly manifested in the following aspects: first, they lack understanding of China's national conditions, are eager for success, and support the view of quick success in economic infrastructure construction; Second, thinking is easy to go to extremes, and it is easy to follow blindly and act blindly; Third, the enthusiasm for pursuing democracy is higher than rationality, the dream is higher than reality, or one-sidedly draws lessons from past democracy, is indifferent to politics and democracy, pays attention to interests, pays attention to immediate enjoyment and pursues money; Fourth, the existing social corruption is unclear, leading to pessimism, disappointment and resistance. Youth groups are easily disturbed by external factors, lack rational judgment on external things, are not calm, calm and impulsive when things happen, and are easily eroded by bad thoughts.
4 the status and role of youth in social development
The advantages of young people determine that they are the most dynamic force in society, and their shortcomings also determine that they should receive scientific education and develop rapidly. Young people are the leaders of science. While promoting the development of science, they also consolidate their position in the political arena. The orientation of youth will increasingly become the main body of social value orientation, and directly or indirectly promote the development of economic base. They play a special role in social development, which is irreplaceable by people of other ages.
4. 1 Young people are successors in all walks of life. Social development is an infinite movement, and people only have a limited life. In order to inherit, create and apply the achievements of human social civilization, middle-aged and elderly people must give full play to their roles, and at the same time, we must strengthen the training of young people, who account for one-third of the total number. After 5 to 10 years, most of the whole construction burden of the motherland will fall on their shoulders, and in about 20 years, the fate of the whole country and even the rise and fall of the whole nation will be borne by them.
4.2 Young people also shoulder the social responsibility of cultivating the next generation. While constantly improving themselves, young people are still in the stage of forming families and reproducing. They must strive to cultivate their descendants, ensure their healthy growth, develop their intelligence reasonably and effectively, cultivate their good conduct, and lay a solid foundation for the formation of their correct world outlook, outlook on life and values.
4.3 Youth are the commandos and fresh forces of social production. Young people's own physical strength and intelligence are in a vigorous period, and their thoughts are becoming more and more mature, and they are qualified to become the commando of social production. Middle-aged people should exercise and cultivate, forge boldly, and hand over some important positions to young people, so that young people can exercise and grow up as soon as possible. Young people are a group with strong desire for success and adventurous spirit. In social production, they often play an important role in technological innovation, invention and creation and overcoming scientific difficulties. Many scientific and technological achievements, even some breakthrough achievements, have been achieved by young people. Their creative activities have brought vitality to all walks of life, produced new vitality and greatly promoted the development of society. It takes three generations to make a gentleman. Young people grow from the seeds at the beginning into trees and become pillars.
5. Teenagers' ideological and political education should pay attention to the following issues.
5. 1 Cultivating the all-round development of teenagers is the goal. This is determined by the party's educational policy. Young people shoulder heavy responsibilities. Only by giving them a comprehensive education can they shoulder the future and responsibilities. In addition, young people are in the stage of all-round development, and all aspects need all-round education. All-round development is the current task.
5.2 Organizing teenagers to participate in social practice is the key. Because the weakest link in the growth of teenagers is the lack of social practice activities; They must also strengthen and deepen the book knowledge they have learned in social practice, and the real play of their abilities must be completed in social practice. Practice sees true knowledge, and only in practice can we exercise more fully.
5.3 Patience persuasion and enthusiastic guidance are the main methods. Young people are successors and future builders, and society should care about them and encourage them enthusiastically. Young people are self-motivated but rebellious. In order to achieve good educational results, they can only take patient persuasion, and coercive measures can only be counterproductive. The main means of ideological and political education is not mandatory. This non-compulsion is mainly manifested in persuading education to change their ideas.
5.4 Diversification of educational methods is an important form. Teenagers are energetic, active and have a wide range of interests, which determines that the form of education for them should not be monotonous, pay attention to forms and methods, and be humanized.