Aesthetic education is an education that enables students to cultivate their sentiments and enrich their spiritual life through aesthetic activities. Aesthetic education is conducive to the all-round development of students, and in this respect, China has a good tradition. Confucius was a famous educator in the pre-Qin period. In response to his disciples' questions, he said: Lutz requires adults. Confucius said,' If you know from the truth that the public doesn't want you, you can be an adult with the courage of the frontier village and the skills of Ran Qiu. "yue:' today's adults are inevitable. See what is right, and you can become an adult if you don't forget your life for a long time. "

The four people mentioned by Confucius here are doctors in the Spring and Autumn Period. Confucius said,' If you have Zang Wuzhong's wisdom, Meng Gong's restraint, Bian Zhuangzi's courage, and Ran Qiu's talent, you can also make a perfect person with rites and music. "They represent wisdom, benevolence, courage and art respectively. If a person integrates the four, his personality is complete. Thus, Confucius attached great importance to the all-round development of human beings. Confucius also advocated that etiquette, music, poetry, calligraphy, archery and the skill of emperors should be listed as school education subjects, which all contained the content of aesthetic education and embodied his thought of all-round development.

Nowadays, the world has entered the era of knowledge economy, and the new economic form has put forward the requirements for all-round development of talents. Developing the comprehensive quality of each student and cultivating high-quality talents with high professional quality and extensive cultural literacy are the guiding ideology of the current development of higher education. Aesthetic education can well embody the purpose of quality education in colleges and universities and make people's various potentials develop in a balanced way. Schiller said that the purpose of aesthetic education is not to promote the development of a certain psychological function alone, but to achieve harmony among various psychological functions by reaching the aesthetic state in the mind. Good personality, education promotes human nature; It can promote the perfection of students' personality. Through perceptual and interesting education, students can unconsciously reserve the possibility of moral realization that can transcend life and death and ignore interests in the aesthetic realm of super-morality, and finally achieve the goal of perfecting their personality. Mr. Cai Yuanpei strongly advocates replacing religion with aesthetic education. He said in the Preface to Aesthetic Principles:' Everyone has a love of beauty, and this love of beauty can be guided as scheduled according to the situation. Can be small and big, can be moral and repairable, can rule the country and level the world. How can you see it? We try to reflect on ourselves, and when we look at pictures and recite poems, we often feel a great comfort in our hearts. It is this realm, the usual concept of right and wrong, and the persistence of differences between people and me have all disappeared, leaving only a bright light and a secret in my heart. So we're unhappy? Open-minded, it will be easy; Broad-minded, you will be fat. Can't you work out? Since the differences between people and me and the concept of interests have disappeared, can't we enter Germany? Everyone is like this, and every family is like this. Can't you rule the country and level the world? 3 143 Mr. Cai told us here that people can achieve a state of freedom and transcendence through aesthetic activities, and aesthetics can also become the support of the subject's mind. In this way, aesthetic education promotes the formation of morality.

In today's society, the moral outlook of college students is facing shocks and challenges from all sides. If we can guide them to experience aesthetic experience frequently through aesthetic education, they will gradually form an aesthetic outlook on life. On the one hand, it can change morality from heteronomy to self-discipline, on the other hand, it can effectively supplement the lack of students' life beliefs and make students' psychological structure constantly perfect. 2 1 century, science and technology and material life are constantly enriched, and the contradiction between desire and ethics is more prominent. Aesthetic education can better coordinate the contradiction between them, which plays an important role in cultivating college students' moral education, humanity and moral ability.

The supplementary function of aesthetic education to intellectual education

People's thinking is generally divided into logical thinking and image thinking. Reflections on aesthetic education