Art education is the most important content and way for schools to implement aesthetic education, and its unique functions and values ??have attracted more and more people's attention. However, people's limited understanding of aesthetic education and art education has long been one of the key factors restricting the healthy development of school art education. Some places and schools do not place art education in its proper place; some places emphasis on a few students with special talents but neglect all students, emphasis on art competition but neglect of classroom teaching, emphasis on skills training but neglect of humanistic qualities, emphasis on achievement display but neglect of education. Process and other tendencies; some pursue "professionalization", "adultification", and "fashionability"; others only regard art education as a "furnishing" and "show window" to create publicity effects. Therefore, establishing a correct concept of art education is an issue that should be paid attention to and worthy of in-depth discussion. In 2010, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "National Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan (2010-2020)", which pointed out the need to "strengthen aesthetic education and cultivate students' good aesthetic taste and humanistic qualities" and proposed "promoting Important educational concepts such as "students' comprehensive and individual development" and "exploration, discovery and cultivation of innovative talents" have put forward higher requirements for the scientific development of school art education at a new historical starting point. School art education includes two fields: popular art education and professional art education. This article discusses the former. Equity: open to all students. School art education includes three aspects: art courses, art practice activities and campus cultural construction. It is the basic way to implement aesthetic education and an organic component of quality education. School art education is not an elite education for a small number of artistically gifted students, nor is it a vocational skills education for the purpose of finding a job. It is a quality education for all students. It has the characteristics of prescriptive, popular and foundational characteristics and should be suitable for all ages. Section students’ physical and mental characteristics and growth patterns. Now, the concept of educational equity has been widely recognized. School art education is not to cultivate artists, but to cultivate all-round development of people. Our schools should allow every student to have fair opportunities to receive high-quality art education. The school’s artistic activities and performances are not only a stage for display, but also a platform for education. We must pay attention to the needs of each student and provide them with satisfaction. Opportunities needed for personality development. Only in this way can we improve the quality and cultivation of our nation as a whole and reflect educational fairness. The current basic education curriculum reform, rural school art education reform experiments, and the "National Education System Reform Pilot Project-School Music Education New System Training Class" organized by the Central Conservatory of Music and other cases that are currently being carried out in depth across the country are exactly the results of practice and convey this concept. Orientation: Have a clear value orientation School art education must adhere to the socialist core value system and have a clear orientation. School art education is different from social mass art and popular entertainment art. It should highlight the educational characteristics and use the excellent human culture and art to lead young people to "be true, good, beautiful, and upward." The innocence and innocence of children, the vitality of teenagers, and the high-spiritedness of youth are the beautiful spiritual qualities that school art education should protect, express, and highlight. School art education is an important spiritual feeding for young students and has a subtle influence on them. School art education should allow young people to be nourished by noble and healthy culture and art from an early age, and implant the genes of truth, goodness and beauty in their souls. The purpose of school art education is to lay the foundation for students' lifelong development and happy life. Therefore, it should not only stimulate students' interests and hobbies, teach basic knowledge and skills, and cultivate the ability to understand, interpret and appreciate art, but also focus on leading students to improve their aesthetics. Taste and build a spiritual home. School art education should abandon impetuousness, stay away from utilitarianism, guide students into a free and noble spiritual state, and enjoy aesthetic pleasure and poetic pleasure. At present, some places, schools, and parents allow underage students to learn Latin dance, rumba dance, and belly dance, and participate in some children's imitation adult shows. Whether these contents and forms are in line with the healthy physical and mental development of young students deserves our serious consideration. Innovation: Cultivate students' imagination and innovative consciousness. Art education is aesthetic education, and it is also education that develops image thinking and stimulates innovative consciousness. Research has proven that art education helps develop the potential of the right hemisphere of the brain and has unique functions in cultivating intuition, imagination and innovative consciousness. Many famous scientists have emphasized the role of art education in cultivating innovative talents. Western developed countries also attach great importance to the value of art education in cultivating innovative talents. Take the United States as an example. In 1960, the launch of a Soviet satellite into the sky triggered the United States to reflect on education, and then formulated the "Manhattan Zero Project" - to strengthen art education and cultivate innovation capabilities; in 2011, a survey report in the United States believed that art education It is the best breakthrough for educational reform. Art education can cultivate innovative talents, and innovative talents are America’s hope for “winning the future.” School art education is highly participatory and practical. Students should be encouraged to actively participate in art practice activities, personally appreciate the charm of art, and continuously enrich their aesthetic experience. We should encourage whimsical thoughts and cultivate initiative and originality of thinking through various artistic activities. Inheritance: Strive to inherit the excellent national culture. Culture and art are the spiritual soil for the survival of a nation and the intangible link on which a nation is maintained.

Culture and art are forged in the vitality, creativity and cohesion of a nation and are the most enduring factors for the survival and development of a nation. Inheriting China's excellent cultural traditions, carrying forward the great national spirit, and nurturing young people with the achievements of human civilization are the unshirkable responsibilities of school art education. Art education plays an important role in education, edification and infiltration, and has a long-term and fundamental impact on a person's lifelong development. At the same time, it is also the most important way and the most effective carrier for inheriting the excellent Chinese culture and art, and plays a foundational role in building the most spiritual homeland of the Chinese nation. We must educate young people about the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation through art education, so that the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation can continue to burn and be passed down from generation to generation.

(Wan Lijun Author's unit: Northeast Normal University)