Nowadays, the world has entered the era of knowledge economy, and the new economic form has put forward the requirements for all-round development of talents. Developing the comprehensive quality of each student and cultivating high-quality talents with high professional quality and extensive cultural literacy are the guiding ideology of the current development of higher education. Aesthetic education can well embody the purpose of quality education in colleges and universities and make people's various potentials develop in a balanced way. Schiller said that the purpose of aesthetic education is not to promote the development of a certain psychological function alone, but to achieve harmony among various psychological functions by reaching the aesthetic state in the mind. Good personality, education promotes human nature; It can promote the perfection of students' personality. Through perceptual and interesting education, students can unconsciously reserve the possibility of moral realization that can transcend life and death and ignore interests in the aesthetic realm of super-morality, and finally achieve the goal of perfecting their personality. Mr. Cai Yuanpei strongly advocates replacing religion with aesthetic education. He said in the Preface to Aesthetic Principles:' Everyone has a love of beauty, and this love of beauty can be guided as scheduled according to the situation. Can be small and big, can be moral and repairable, can rule the country and level the world. How can you see it? We try to reflect on ourselves, and when we look at pictures and recite poems, we often feel a great comfort in our hearts. It is this realm, the usual concept of right and wrong, and the persistence of differences between people and me have all disappeared, leaving only a bright light and a secret in my heart. So we're unhappy? Open-minded, it will be easy; Broad-minded, you will be fat. Can't you work out? Since the differences between people and me and the concept of interests have disappeared, can't we enter Germany? Everyone is like this, and every family is like this. Can't you rule the country and level the world? 3 143 Mr. Cai told us here that people can achieve a state of freedom and transcendence through aesthetic activities, and aesthetics can also become the support of the subject's mind. In this way, aesthetic education promotes the formation of morality.

In today's society, the moral outlook of college students is facing shocks and challenges from all sides. If we can guide them to experience aesthetic experience frequently through aesthetic education, they will gradually form an aesthetic outlook on life. On the one hand, it can change morality from heteronomy to self-discipline, on the other hand, it can effectively supplement the lack of students' life beliefs and make students' psychological structure constantly perfect. 2 1 century, science and technology and material life are constantly enriched, and the contradiction between desire and ethics is more prominent. Aesthetic education can better coordinate the contradiction between them, which plays an important role in cultivating college students' moral education, humanity and moral ability.

The supplementary function of aesthetic education to intellectual education

People's thinking is generally divided into logical thinking and image thinking. The thinking mode of aesthetic education focuses on image thinking, while the thinking mode of intellectual education focuses on logical thinking. Usually, artists mainly use image thinking in artistic creation, while scientists mainly use logical thinking in invention and creation. Numerous facts have proved that if artists only pay attention to the use of image thinking, without the participation of logical thinking and the guidance and grasp of rational thinking on the whole work, it is difficult to organize the work perfectly. Similarly, in scientific discovery and creation, scientists cannot do without the association and inspiration of thinking in images. Mr. Li Zhengdao said that his scientific research work has a lot to do with his love of music. Qian Xuesen, a famous scientist in China, also said that his scientific work is closely related to his wife who works in music. In this way, logical thinking and image thinking do not exist in isolation, can not be simply juxtaposed, and can not be opposed. Ignoring any party does not conform to the objective law of the development of things, and it will also affect our actual work. In scientific research, image thinking and logical thinking are interdependent and complementary. Aesthetic education for college students can better cultivate their thinking ability in images, which is a good supplement to their scientific thinking and intellectual thinking. In addition, in the process of scientific research, the epiphany of the senses on the subject can not be ignored. The law of formal beauty is the basic factor that runs through various forms. Just as the law of formal beauty can be freely applied in technology and technology, it often permeates from the formal beauty in scientific research to the concern about the ultimate structure of the universe. This not only conforms to the objective law, but also contains people's pursuit of subjectivity and purpose. It is also an aesthetic element in science and technology and a scientific beauty. Revealing the truth with beauty means guiding and enlightening students through illogical thinking forms such as sensibility, intuition, comprehension and inspiration, promoting students to form intuitive perception ability, and internalizing rational components into their psychological structure through aesthetic activities. Therefore, while cultivating college students' professional quality, we can't ignore their aesthetic education, otherwise it will not only damage their all-round development, but also affect their mastery of professional knowledge.

The main ways to implement aesthetic education in colleges and universities in the new period

First, open an elective course of aesthetic education theory. The course of aesthetic education theory mainly includes basic knowledge of aesthetics, art history and art criticism. The purpose is to make students understand the basic knowledge of aesthetics, aesthetic education and art, to make college students understand the basic problems of aesthetic education such as "what is beauty", "what is art" and "how to appreciate beauty", and to provide theoretical guidance for students' aesthetic activities.

Second, offering art appreciation elective courses. Art education is the main way and content of implementing aesthetic education in schools. Without art education, there is no aesthetic education, because art is the concentrated expression of aesthetics, and art appreciation is an important channel for students to understand art. The purpose of art appreciation class in colleges and universities is to invite aesthetics out of the "ivory tower" and make it enter specific art appreciation activities. By appreciating the classic works of art, we can help and guide students to feel the meaning of "beauty" and improve their aesthetic ability and aesthetic value orientation. Appreciation classes can include literature appreciation.