The Value Significance Of The Thought Of Serving The People In The Ideological And Political Education In Higher Education

The thought of serving the people is the basic thought of Marxism. Marx and Lenin respectively put forward the thought of working for the interests of the immense majority and the thought of serving the millions and tens of millions of working people. Comrade Mao Zedong carried forward the thought and refinedly summarized it five Chinese characters "serving the people" .When the thought was put forward, it was for all the CCP members and the revolutionary army, so it was a political concept at that time. Having been developed by generations of CCP leaders, the thought of serving the people, a political concept when it was put forward, has become a combination of political concept and an ethic concept, which is now the aim or purpose of the CCP and score of socialist moral construction.In the new area of socialism, the CCP attaches great importance to educating the people in the thought of serving the people. However, in the conditions of socialist market economy, there is a tendency, by some people, of denying the thought of serving the people. They think that the thought of people is out of date. To be against the tendency, our comrades on the ideological and political front should strengthen and improve the education in of the people the thought of serving the people. The passage holds the opinion that strengthening the education in of the people the thought of serving the people should start with higher education. Educating the people in the thought of serving the people can be promoted by educating college students. So the thought of serving the people is of great theoretical and practical values. Exploring its significance or meaning of values is no doubt of great theoretical and practical values to strengthening ideological and political education, and improving the effectiveness of time. The passage argues that the thought of serving the people has rich Connotations and characteristics .Theoretically, the thought of serving the people embodies the basic principles of historical materialism, lays the theoretical foundation of ideological and political education in China, establishes the core of ideological and political education in China, and enhances the ideological power of college students .Practically, the thought of serving the people makes sure college students establish scientific views on life, improves the ideological and moral qualities of college students, and guides the college students to firmly resisting decadent ideas, to cultivate qualified constructors and successors to the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.In the practice of ideological and political education in higher education, education in views on value, in ideal, in views on righteousness and benefit, in views on power, and in the spirit of working hard, should be strengthened. At the same time, college students should enhance self education, making themselves qualified constructors and successors to the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and actualizing the life values.