Self-discipline and heteronomy are a pair of philosophical and ethical categories put forward by Kant. Thinkers such as Kant and Rousseau regard self-discipline as a basic condition of moral subject, which refers to the ethical principle formulated to pursue morality itself through their own reason and conscience, rather than obtaining moral strength from some external requirements (such as gods, secular authority, tradition or natural instinct). Different disciplines have different definitions of self-discipline, but it is generally believed that the essence of self-discipline is that it requires people to be more rational, and faith, as the binding force and driving force of behavior choice, respects people's subjectivity. Emphasizing autonomy, autonomy and self-education, it has the characteristics of consciousness, autonomy, internal control and self-study.

Second, the necessity of cultivating college students' self-discipline awareness

Cultivating college students' self-discipline ability is the need for colleges and universities to improve students' learning and needs. Colleges and universities are places to train talents. The purpose of school education is to cultivate and educate high-quality students, explore their creative potential, and promote them to form a scientific, cultural and moral quality system that is recognized by society and beneficial to social progress. This specific purpose of school education determines that all school management should obey and serve education, and provide a good environment and quality assurance for the smooth progress of education. Improving college students' self-discipline ability is the need of cultivating high-quality talents. Talents cultivated in colleges and universities should not only have solid, comprehensive and excellent scientific and cultural qualities, but also have good ideological and moral qualities. Cultivating college students' good qualities, such as honesty and trustworthiness, respect for others, civility and courtesy, caring for public property and obeying the law, is the most important thing in talent training.

Thirdly, the ways and methods to cultivate college students' self-discipline ability.

Any good behavior habit and quality are not innate, and need to be edified, educated and cultivated from family, society, school and other aspects. The cultivation of strict self-discipline spirit and noble self-discipline ability cannot be separated from long-term education and guidance. In ideological education, how to consciously cultivate college students' good self-discipline consciousness and higher self-discipline ability is a problem worthy of study and discussion. The author believes that we can start from the following aspects:

Organize college students to manage themselves and improve their self-discipline ability. The daily management of college students should emphasize the cultivation of self-discipline quality, establish a self-discipline management mechanism, form a self-discipline atmosphere, improve the self-discipline quality of college students, and supervise, inspect and promote all the work through the establishment of post responsibility system for student cadres, class assessment system, student quality assessment system and reward and punishment system. The head teacher should get rid of the heavy routine work and play a more directional guiding role.