| Education is the grand plan of the country and the party,and is an important cornerstone of national rejuvenation and social progress.Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the strategic position of education in the cause of the party and the country,insists on giving priority to the development of education,pays particular attention to the issue of youth education,and has published a series of important speeches on youth education.These important speeches have high intentions,profound thoughts,and rich connotations.They are Xi Jinping’s profound thinking and theoretical summaries of youth education.The formation and development of Xi Jinping’s important discourse on youth education stems from a profound theoretical origin,certain realistic background and specific subjective conditions.The classic Marxism,the Chinese Marxist youth education theory and the youth education thought in ancient Chinese excellent traditional culture are the theoretical sources of Xi Jinping’s important discourse on youth education.The task of the era of national rejuvenation,the practical needs of youth growth and the competition of talents for international exchange are the realistic backgrounds for the formation of this important discourse.Xi Jinping’s personal theoretical foundation and practical experience are subjective conditions for the formation of Xi Jinping’s important discourses on youth education.Xi Jinping’s important discourse on youth education is rich in content,mainly elaborating the four aspects of youth education goals,tasks,content,methods and paths.Xi Jinping pointed out that in the goals and tasks of youth education,it is necessary to implement the fundamental task of building up morals and cultivating new people of the era to achieve the great task of national rejuvenation.In terms of the content of youth education,we must work hard on youth’s ideals and beliefs education,patriotism education,moral education,knowledge culture education,responsibility education,and comprehensive quality education.In terms of the methods of youth education,the culture cultivation method,the example model method and the social practice method are adopted.In terms of the path of youth education,we must build a comprehensive education system.Xi Jinping ’s important discourse on youth education answers the key questions of “what kind of youth to educate”,“how to educate youth”,and “who educates young people for whom”.These important discourse have the characteristics of directionality,innovation,comprehensiveness,practicality,permeability,vividness,etc.Xi Jinping’s important discourse on youth education has important contemporary value.In terms of theoretical value,Xi Jinping’s important discourse on youth education is an important part of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era in terms of theoretical value,and a new achievement of the Sinicization of Marxist youth education theory;In terms of practical value,it has provided talent strength support for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,provided guidelines for the growth and education of young people and provided ideological guidance for young people to participate in international exchanges and competitions. |
