How to understand the importance of cultural education?

Cultural education is an extremely important educational thought and a very important systematic project, which plays a very important role in promoting the development of all walks of life. The Sixth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly pointed out that deepening the reform of cultural system, strengthening socialist cultural construction, liberating and developing cultural productive forces, and promoting the all-round prosperity of cultural undertakings and the rapid development of cultural industries are related to the realization of the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way, the overall layout of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's undertakings and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Therefore, prospering and developing advanced socialist culture, establishing national self-confidence and inspiring national spirit will certainly provide ideological guarantee and spiritual motivation for realizing the grand goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and building a harmonious socialist society.

First, adhere to the concept of "educating people" in cultural education.

(1) Culture is the most basic symbol of a nation. Culture is the reflection of human personality and its ecological condition, and it is a unique phenomenon of human society. It is created by people and unique to people. Only human society can have culture, which is the product of human social practice and the synthesis of people's handling of various relations. Culture contains a certain degree of rationality, but it is not the result of rational choice, but gradually formed by social evolution. It is a spiritual cultivation system including knowledge, values, ethics, system and religion, which not only embodies concrete material civilization, but also accumulates spiritual civilization. Culture itself is a dynamic concept and a historical development process. It has both regional characteristics, national characteristics and characteristics of the times. Therefore, culture is the most basic symbol of a nation. Culture is an influence and strength, a belief and direction, and a concentrated soul and blood. Historically speaking, China culture includes not only traditional culture with a long history, but also modern culture with great changes in China cultural tradition. China traditional culture is a relatively stable cultural form formed and developed by the Chinese nation in the ancient society of China, the crystallization of Chinese wisdom and the display of Chinese historical heritage in real life. As the famous Taiwan Province humanistic master Bai Yang said, "China has a long and splendid cultural development, just like a spectacular and great river ..."

(2) Educating people is the most fundamental task of education. Since ancient times, culture has been the foundation of educating people. Judging from the emergence of education, culture is the product of human civilization and social development to a certain stage. From the perspective of the process of education, education is a process of applying culture to exert influence on educational objects, and it is essentially a purposeful and planned cultural teaching process. What we usually call teaching, management and service education is actually cultural education. From the perspective of educational environment, culture is an ecological cultural system including material, system and spirit, which provides people with a cultural atmosphere, creates a quiet mind and provides a driving force for growth and development. What does education use to train talents? The affirmative answer is: culture. As Marx, the great teacher, said in the article "Outline on Feuerbach": "The essence of human beings is not an abstract thing inherent in a single person. In its reality, it is the sum of all social relations. " This complex social relationship determines the essence of human beings and forms their social attributes. Therefore, from the fundamental purpose of education, culture can help the educated to complete socialization and make them become social people with sound personality and independent will. In the process of education, educators pass on the cultural achievements accumulated by human society for a long time to the educational objects, which is the fundamental foundation of education. For example, when we talk about the difficulties faced by higher education in China in recent years, the focus is still on the problem of insufficient investment. The obvious phenomenon is that the proportion of higher education investment in GDP is not only lower than the world average, but also lower than that of India (BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and then South Africa). The lack of ideas and culture is often underestimated, which leads to the deviation of "educating people" in the education process. Therefore, we adhere to the concept of "educating people", which means that "educating people" must be the first meaning of education. "Education-oriented" is the life and soul of education, and it is the essential requirement and value appeal of education. The educational thought of "educating people" requires that education should not only pay attention to the current development of people, but also pay attention to their long-term and all-round development. We should not only pay attention to those who are educated and educated, but also pay attention to the objects we serve-the country and the people, so as to continuously meet the needs of the country and the people. This is the ultimate goal and the highest realm of education.

(3) Culture is the productive force of enriching the country and strengthening the people. Culture is the sum of material wealth and spiritual wealth created by human beings in the process of social and historical development. Generally speaking, culture is more manifested as spiritual wealth. Culture is the soul of a country and a nation, and it embodies the character of a country and a nation. The power of culture, deeply rooted in the vitality, creativity and cohesion of the nation, is the spiritual support to unite people's hearts and promote development, and is also an important factor to enhance the country's cultural soft power and enhance its comprehensive competitiveness. The splendid China culture of 5,000 years has made great contributions to the progress of human civilization. It is the endless spiritual bond of the Chinese nation and the inheritance of national blood. It is also the source of strength for the Chinese nation to stand firm in various complex environments and persevere in disasters in the face of severe challenges. In the historical process of creating a bright future for the Chinese nation, culture is not only a powerful spiritual driving force for all-round and coordinated economic and social development, but also an important part of economic and social development. Science and technology is a kind of productivity, and culture is also a kind of productivity. In the process of contradictory movement between productive forces and production relations, culture is an important ideological guarantee for the healthy development of productive forces. Cultural productivity has become one of the elements of contemporary comprehensive national strength. This is a clear understanding formed since the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The development of cultural productive forces will have a positive or negative direct impact on the development of politics, economy, culture, society and ecology. Therefore, we emphasize that whether we adhere to the strategy of strengthening the country through culture or take the road of prospering politics and industry through culture, it actually shows that the development of the cause should be based on cultural productivity, which is the basic guarantee for the prosperity of the cause. The central leading comrades pointed out at the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of our Party: "Advanced socialist culture is the ideological and spiritual banner of Marxist political parties." Comrade Mao Zedong once said, "Doctrine is like a banner. When the flag is erected, everyone will have hope and know where to go. " The decision of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to deepen the reform of the cultural system has set up such a landmark cultural banner, which is to let us have hope and know where to go. Therefore, it is our common wish to give full play to the cohesion, centripetal force and shaping power of the cultural banner and build the spiritual home of the Chinese nation. It can be seen that culture is a kind of soft power, a kind of productivity, competitiveness and creativity, and the fundamental driving force for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Second, insisting on cultural education must attach importance to the improvement of quality education.

(A) quality education is to improve the quality of the nation for the purpose of education. Quality-oriented education is an educational model aimed at improving the quality of all aspects of education objects. It attaches importance to people's ideological and moral quality, ability training, personality development, physical health and mental health education. Corresponding to exam-oriented education. It is an education based on the national education policy, focusing on the requirements of educational objects and the long-term development of society, aiming at facing all citizens and improving people's basic quality in an all-round way, and focusing on cultivating the attitude and ability of educational objects and promoting their lively and positive development in moral, intellectual and physical aspects. The basis of quality education is adult education, which is to become a person's education, not adult education; The basic characteristics are totality, foundation, development, comprehensiveness and futurity; The goal is to cultivate a successful personality; The core is to promote people's all-round development, which is the dialectical unity and coordinated development of ideological and moral quality, cultural quality, scientific quality and physical and mental quality. Cultural quality is an important part of it. Culture has unique advantages in improving the quality of the whole nation and shaping noble personality. The most important focus of cultural construction is people, and the enrichment of people's spiritual realm and the satisfaction of cultural needs can better promote people's development. At present, the people's demands for realizing their own cultural rights and interests are getting higher and higher, and their expectations for enriching spiritual and cultural life are getting more and more eager. Meeting the people's material and cultural needs is an inevitable requirement for our party to fulfill its ruling mission and responsibility. Therefore, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put forward an important topic of in-depth study on the reform of cultural system and promoting the great development and prosperity of culture from the height of promoting people's all-round development. This important measure will promote the formation of a good situation in which cultural development is for the people, cultural development depends on the people and the fruits of cultural development are shared by the people, promote the all-round development of people and improve the overall quality of the whole nation.

(2) Cultural education is the necessary way to scientifically implement quality education. Cultural education is an ideological revolution in recent years, which is influenced by the utilitarian impetuousness brought by the development of market economy. Cultural education is emphasized in the content of quality education to improve people's quality of life. The quality of human life should express dignity, emotion, spirit, belief, ability, responsibility and many other elements. Quality education through cultural education highlights two aspects of construction. The first is the construction of "attitude". The essence of a person's "attitude" towards people and things is an emotion, its motivation is a taste, its connotation is a metaphor for colorful thoughts, and its soul exudes creative vitality. Therefore, "attitude" is the basis for a person to treat and deal with problems. The second is "capacity building". The cultivation of "ability" is not only to express a kind of responsibility to society and family through activities, but also to have the psychological accomplishment and mental state to support the enterprising virtue of human nature. The cultivation of "ability" is the crystallization of experience and expresses the dynamic absorption of culture and education. "Ability" is the display of ideas, expressing spirituality and understanding in creative learning and life. Therefore, "ability" is the embodiment of a person's quality in dealing with and handling problems. It is this cultivation of "attitude" and "ability" that constitutes the basic elements of quality education and the basic guarantee for cultural education to improve the quality of life. This concept represents the development direction of China's advanced culture, embodies the basic essence of quality education, and is the only way to scientifically implement quality education. On April 24th, 20 1 1 year, the leaders of our Party pointed out at the meeting to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of Tsinghua University 100: "We should give full play to the educational role of culture, strengthen the construction of the socialist core value system, master the cultural achievements accumulated by predecessors, discard the old meanings, create new knowledge, spread it to the society and continue it to future generations, and constantly cultivate and advocate science and pursue truth to promote the society. The connotation of this important exposition is extremely profound, which is of great and far-reaching significance for improving the overall cultural quality of the whole nation and cultivating high-quality innovative talents. The reason why the leaders of our party issued such a great call is to give full play to the educational role of culture, and then improve the overall quality of the whole nation. Therefore, we must adhere to the orientation of advanced socialist culture, carry forward Chinese culture, build a harmonious culture, develop cultural undertakings and industries, meet the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people, give full play to the functions of culture in guiding society, educating people and promoting development, build the spiritual home of the Chinese nation, and enhance national cohesion and creativity.

(C) Cultural education has innovated the core value of quality education "Suntech". It is the fundamental task of education to improve the comprehensive quality of educational objects and the training level of talents, but education in the true sense is more important than training talents. Pursuing outstanding academic achievements and market influence while ignoring personality cultivation is "Excellence without soul" In this respect, cultural education has innovated the core value of quality education "Suntech". First of all, "Suntech" is the core of quality education. "Morality" is the soul of quality education, the self-discipline shown by resisting spiritual impetuousness, and the awakening of subjective consciousness. The realm of virtue is kindness and tolerance, the cultivation of virtue is conscience and ethics, the cultivation of virtue is responsibility and patience, the soul of virtue is stretched without wrinkling, and the temperament of virtue carves out the nobility of life. The establishment of "Suntech", the core of quality education, is not the increase or decrease of educational activities, but the innovation of educational purposes; It is not a change in the direction of education, but a sublimation of educational ideas. This kind of innovation and sublimation is a respect for social integrity and a sincere belief in being a man. Generally speaking, the establishment of an industry's core values often depends on political orientation, social values and the protection of education. The value of core values lies in giving full play to influence and promoting the inner support of life belief. "Suntech" is an educational expression to improve people's quality from the perspective of mind and humanity. Therefore, "Suntech" has become the environmental protection of the soul and an important connotation to support the quality of life. Secondly, "Suntech" is the ideal destination of life values. It is emphasized that "Suntech" is the core value of quality education, and it is important to establish the spirit and concept of "virtue is the world", form a basic value judgment and educational orientation with "virtue" as the standard, and turn it into a code of conduct. As the core value of quality education, Suntech's life culture is the inheritance and development of the concept of "the world is for the public" put forward by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the forerunner of China's great democratic revolution, and the concept of "serving the people" put forward by the great generation of Comrade Mao Zedong. "The world is for the public" embodies the social morality of human virtue, "for the people" embodies the social morality of human virtue, and both public morality and morality are introspection of personal virtue. The concept of "Suntech" not only leads education, but also purifies society. Therefore, "Suntech" has the dignity of "national training", the "public morality" of the world for the masses, and the morality of self-discipline and introspection, which is the ideal destination of life values. Third, creating virtue is the goal of cultural education. Cultural education is not the indoctrination of tangible knowledge, but the indoctrination of human virtues, such as respect, enterprising, responsibility, tolerance, gratitude, conscience, modesty and courage. Express a positive consciousness and infiltrate into the soul and spirit imperceptibly, with the ultimate goal of casting the virtue of human nature. A concept cultivates a spirit, a culture molds a talent, and the purification of society can only reflect innovation and cohesion through the spirit of cultural expression. The practice and popularization of quality education can only express a new realm of adapting to development through the interpretation of cultural concepts. Therefore, cultural education is the spiritual force to adhere to the virtue of human nature and social fairness and justice, and the ideological resource to realize the positive atmosphere of social change.

Third, adhering to cultural education must carry forward the spirit of inheritance and innovation.

(1) Cultural education must follow the internal and external laws of education. The key to understanding the significance of cultural education is to understand the characteristics, essence, value and significance of culture. The characteristic of culture is innovation, which requires reflection on the present situation and reconstruction by grasping the essence of things. Therefore, it is an important task of cultural education to create a cultural atmosphere and innovate cultural construction around the cultivation of innovative talents. Educating people is the fundamental purpose and task of education, and cultural education emphasizes that the realization of this fundamental task must follow the internal and external laws of educational development. From the internal law, we must pay attention to the shaping of the subject's soul, the perfection of personality and the development of quality, and embody the educational concept of educating people, putting moral education first, focusing on ability and all-round development. From the external law, we must pay attention to the changes of the times and the characteristics of international competition, and give full play to the cultural inheritance and innovation role of education from the height of building an innovative country. Innovative culture breeds innovative cause, and innovative cause encourages innovative culture. Therefore, to build an innovative country, cultivate innovative talents and improve the quality of education in an all-round way, we must vigorously develop innovative culture, promote cultural inheritance and innovation, and strive to cultivate the innovative spirit of the whole society. Therefore, education is an important carrier of excellent cultural inheritance and an important source of ideological and cultural innovation. In the process of developing innovative culture, building an innovative country and cultivating talents, cultural education shoulders an extremely important and special mission.

(2) Cultural education must be based on the education of the core value system. Taking cultural education as the core to promote cultural inheritance and innovation, the key is to take the socialist core value system as the guide, firmly establish the concept of people-oriented, serving and educating people, and clarify the goal and mission. The socialist core value system is a scientific proposition explicitly put forward for the first time at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee. Its basic contents include the guiding ideology of Marxism, the national spirit with patriotism as the core, the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core, and the socialist concept of honor and disgrace with "eight honors and eight disgraces" as the main content. The basic contents of these four aspects are interrelated and interrelated, and * * * constitutes an organic whole of dialectical unity. The socialist core value system occupies a core position in the whole social value system of our country, plays a leading role and determines the basic characteristics and direction of the whole value system. This system embodies the unity of advancement and universality, inheritance and times, standardization and guidance, nationality and inclusiveness, and has extensive guidance and applicability. The strategic task of building a socialist core value system is of great significance not only for deepening the understanding of the essence of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, but also for vigorously promoting the construction of a harmonious culture and a harmonious society. Therefore, if we persist in educating people through culture, we must build our own core values on the basis of the socialist core value system, and truly embody the basic ideas, cultural traditions, realistic attitudes, behavioral norms and value standards of party member cadres in terms of ideology, politics and action, so as to ensure the accuracy of the education direction and content.

(3) Cultural education is the responsibility and obligation of the whole society. Man's soul, text to turn it. Culture has always been an area that people attach great importance to and actively explore. With the deepening of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's theory and practice, the whole party, society and nation pay more and more attention to culture, and their understanding of culture is deepening. Calling for cultural consciousness, cultural roots and cultural education has become a major issue and sacred mission faced by contemporary society and contemporary education. Therefore, adhering to cultural education means persisting in grasping the fundamentals, grasping the foundation and grasping the long-term, which is the profound meaning of culture as the soul. Socialist culture is an important force to unite and inspire people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to work hard and is an important symbol to enhance comprehensive national strength. At the new historical starting point, promoting the construction of socialist culture is related to the implementation of the mass line of Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents, Scientific Outlook on Development and the Party, the realization of the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Therefore, we must integrate the socialist core value system into the whole process of national education, civilization construction and party building, strengthen Socialism with Chinese characteristics's ideal, vigorously carry forward the national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core, and firmly establish and strive to practice the socialist world outlook, outlook on life and values, which is the unshirkable responsibility and obligation of our whole nation and society.

Practice has proved that human studies on society are not about people, but about culture. The only thing left by history to future generations is culture. Culture is eternal. It has a pulse that transcends time, and it embodies politics, economy and humanity. The value of culture lies in creation and in casting people's spirit and soul. Cultural education is a means to educate people with the meaning and function embodied in the cultural value system. The reason why the Fifth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put forward that "culture is the spirit and soul of a nation and the strength of national development and national rejuvenation" shows that the civilization and progress of human society can never be separated from the influence of the cultural value system created by human beings. Therefore, the concept of cultural education is to promote human civilization and social progress through cultural vitality and spiritual tension. Therefore, we should deeply understand the essence, importance and necessity of cultural education and cultural construction, take the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as a guide, and consciously regard promoting the prosperity and development of cultural undertakings as the basic requirement for practicing Scientific Outlook on Development, so as to further promote the great development and prosperity of people's social undertakings in our province at a new historical starting point.