The Significance of Contemporary College Students' Learning Traditional Morality

As an important force to promote social progress and national rejuvenation, the quality of contemporary college students, especially their ideological and moral qualities, will greatly affect the future and destiny of socialist China. In the practice of ideological and moral education for students, we should take Marxism and Deng Xiaoping Theory as the guidance, base ourselves on carrying forward the fine traditions of the nation, and focus on absorbing the outstanding achievements of civilization of all mankind, so as to make our students become a generation with noble morality. However, due to various reasons, we find that contemporary college students know little about China's traditional ethics. Advancing towards modern civilization should not be at the expense of losing the foundation of traditional culture. Under the background of reform and opening-up and the establishment of socialist market economy, our college students pay blind attention to "modernity" and "fashion", and have a wrong understanding of the operating rules of market economy. Therefore, the traditional values have been impacted, which easily leads to the expansion of people's selfish desires and the spread of money worship and hedonism. College students are in the critical period of the formation of world outlook, and it is very important for the healthy growth of college students to establish a correct outlook on life, values and noble moral sentiments. Under the condition of socialist market economy, we need to continue to advocate the spirit of ideological dedication and collectivism to serve the people, which is the objective requirement of building a Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and also an important spiritual motive force and ideological guarantee for modernization and developing the socialist market economy.