Ideals and beliefs are a person's spiritual pillar and source of motivation. Great ideals and lofty beliefs can ignite the passion of life, stimulate people's intelligence and inspire people to keep forging ahead. People who have made outstanding contributions to the cause of human progress at all times and all over the world have lofty ideals and lofty beliefs. Youth is the golden age of sowing ideals and establishing beliefs, and it is the key stage of planning the future and designing life. What kind of ideals and beliefs are established is directly related to what kind of life young college students lead, which fundamentally determines the significance and value of young college students' lives. Section 1 Ideals and Beliefs and the Growth of College Students When we were young, we all heard the word "ideal". Even from childhood, we all set up our own ideals. The "four haves" newcomers have just had an "ideal". It can be seen that ideals accompany a person's growth, especially young students, who are even more ideal companions. But what is an ideal and how to establish a correct ideal are inseparable from faith. What is faith and how to strengthen the correct faith are the problems we have to solve in this chapter. First, the meaning and characteristics of ideals and beliefs

The establishment of ideals and beliefs is not a spontaneous process, but the result of conscious efforts. To establish lofty ideals and beliefs, young college students must first understand and choose the ideals and beliefs themselves.

(A) the meaning and characteristics of the ideal

1, the ideal meaning

The word "ideal" originally comes from the Greek word "ideal", which means the goal of life. In ancient China, the ideal was called "ambition", that is, ambition. Confucius said, "The three armed forces can seize the rate, but ordinary people can't seize the ambition." Today, in a general sense, ideal is people's yearning and pursuit for the future society and their own development formed in practice, and it is a concentrated expression of people's world outlook, outlook on life and values in their goals.

What is the ideal? After reading this poem, students may have a new understanding of the connotation of ideals.

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Ideal is a stone, knocking out a single spark; Ideal is fire, lighting the extinguished lamp;

Ideal is a lamp that illuminates the road at night; Ideal is the road that leads you to the dawn.

In the age of hunger and cold, the ideal is food and clothing; In the era of food and clothing, the ideal is civilization;

In chaotic times, the ideal is stability; In a stable era, the ideal is prosperity.

Ideals are pearls, one connected to the other; Crossing ancient and modern times, stringing the future, the sky is endless;

Beautiful pearl chain, the backbone of history; The past shines on the present, the present shines on the ancient times, and the ancestors shine on their descendants.

Ideal is a compass to guide ships; Ideal is a ship, carrying you to the sea;

But the ideal is sometimes the arc of the kiss of the sea and the sky, which is elusive and tortures your enterprising heart.

Ideal makes you smile and observe life; Ideal makes you stubbornly resist fate;

Ideal makes you forget the early gray hair on your temples; Ideal makes your head white and naive.

Ideal is an alarm clock to break your golden dream. Ideal is soap to wash away your selfishness.

Ideal is both harvest and sacrifice. If the ideal brings you honor, it is only a by-product, and it brings more misunderstood loneliness, laughter in loneliness and bitterness in laughter.

Ideal makes honest people often suffer misfortune; Ideals keep the unfortunate people alive.

Ordinary people are great because they have ideals, and people with ideals are "capitalized people".

There are always people in the world who abandon their ideals, but they never abandon anyone and give new life to sinners. Ideal is immortal grass that can revive the soul. Call the prodigal son back, the ideal is a loving mother.

The ideal is defiled, there is no need to resent; That's the devil testing your loyalty; Ideal has been pickpocketed, don't cry; Go and get it back. Be careful in the future.

Heroes lose their ideals and become mediocrities; Exaggerated the achievements of the year; Mediocre people have lost their ideals and lived all their lives, ridiculously cursing the immediate environment.

Ideal flowering, peach and plum fruit; The bud of the ideal must have shade when it is raised; Please take the ideal horse and start with the whip. Spring has just started, and the sky is sunny.

2. Ideal characteristics

(1) Realistic possibility: Ideal is based on realistic soil, conforms to the development law of nature and society, and is a life goal that can be achieved through struggle.

(2) Progress: Ideal is people's yearning and pursuit for a better future based on their understanding and summary of reality. It is higher than reality, beyond reality.

(3) Concrete historicity: In different social life and at different historical stages, people will have different ideals. People's ideals will change with the development of social history. At different stages of life, you will have different ideals, or make various adjustments to your own ideals.

(4) Practicality: The real ideal is not only the subjective imagination of future goals, but also people's subjective efforts in practice.

3. Ideal type

There are many aspects and types of ideals, and there are four kinds of ideal contents:

① Social and political ideal: longing, pursuit and yearning for the future social system and political structure;

Moral ideal: refers to the ideal personality that people yearn for and pursue, and is the standard of being a man;

Career ideal: people's choice of future career and their yearning and pursuit of what they want to achieve;

Life ideal: people's yearning and pursuit for a certain lifestyle, living standard, material life, spiritual life and family life.

From the ideal object, there are personal ideals and social ideals:

① Personal ideal: individual's yearning and imagination for his future material life and spiritual life under certain historical conditions and social relations. Including personal specific career ideals, life ideals and moral ideals.

② Social ideal: refers to the * * * common ideal of the subject of social organism and even all social members, and only the * * * common goal should be dominant in the whole society.

The relationship between the two: social ideal determines the restriction of personal ideal, and personal ideal and social ideal goal are more likely to be realized in unison. If the direction is opposite, it will not be easy to achieve and will also cause harm; Personal ideal embodies social ideal, which depends on the realization of personal ideal.

(B) the meaning and characteristics of faith

1, the meaning of faith

Belief is the organic unity of cognition, emotion and will, and it is the psychological attitude and mental state that people firmly believe in a certain concept or thing and put it into practice on the basis of certain understanding. Faith is based on knowledge, emotion is the key and will is the guarantee.

2. Characteristics of faith

Sociality: belief is gradually formed in life practice, which accumulates a person's life experience for many years, including the long-term influence of social environment on him, and transforms it into internal emotions.

Stability: once formed, it will last for life and has great inertia.

Development: Scientific belief is bound to keep pace with the times with the changes of objective reality, constantly enriching, adjusting and perfecting.

What is the relationship between ideals and beliefs?

Ideals and beliefs always go hand in hand and depend on each other. Ideal is the foundation and premise of belief, and belief is an important guarantee for the realization of ideal. Faith is the support of ideals and a powerful driving force for people to pursue their ideal goals. Once the belief is formed, it will make people unswervingly and persistently pursue their ideal goals. Many times, ideals are also beliefs, and beliefs are also ideals. When an ideal is a belief, it refers to a view and proposition that people firmly believe in; When faith is an ideal, it is a yearning and pursuit associated with the goal of struggle. Second, the importance of ideals and beliefs to the growth of college students

If society is the sea and life is a boat, then ideal is the beacon for navigation and faith is the sail for progress. Life without ideals and beliefs is like a boat without direction and motivation, drifting around in the waves of life and even sinking in rapids and rapids. At the university, at the prime of life, lofty ideals and lofty beliefs will help a generation to raise the sails of life for young people and open up and explore new voyages in life.

(A) the role of ideals and beliefs

1. Guide life goals.

Russian writer lev tolstoy said that ideal is the guiding light. Without ideals, there is no firm direction. There is no real life without direction.

19 10, Mao Zedong's father Mao Shunsheng asked him to do business, but Mao Zedong decided to leave Shaoshanchong for further study. After his own efforts and the unanimous persuasion of relatives, friends and teachers, my father agreed to his request.

On the eve of leaving home to study in Dongshan Middle School in Xiangxiang County, Mao Zedong began to write a poem "Poem for Father", which was put into the book that his father must read every day. This is:

The child is determined to go to the country.

If you don't learn to be famous, you will never pay it back.

Why bury bones in mulberry fields,

Life is everywhere.

This poem is a declaration of young Mao Zedong's going to the world, which shows his great ambition of caring for the world and aiming at all directions.

2. provide motivation for life.

In history, all people who have contributed to the cause of human progress have overcome all kinds of difficulties and achieved success under the encouragement of lofty ideals. Li Shizhen traveled all over Qingshan and tasted all kinds of herbs, and wrote Compendium of Materia Medica; Marx worked hard for 40 years, read 1500 books and wrote Das Kapital. As Gorky said, the higher a person pursues, the faster his talents develop and the more beneficial it is to society. Deng Xiaoping once said, "Why did we struggle out under very difficult circumstances and overcome all difficulties and dangers to win the revolution?" ? It is because we have ideals, Marxist beliefs and productive beliefs. ""In our most difficult period, the ideal of productism was our spiritual pillar, and many people sacrificed for this ideal. "

3. Improve the spiritual realm of life.

Shakespeare said that when a person is in his prime, he only knows how to eat, sleep and sleep. What is he? He's just an animal. Marx said, "Realistic people = the spirit of thoughtful people."

(B) ideals and beliefs and college students

Ideals and beliefs are the core of people's spiritual world. Whether there are ideals and beliefs, and what kind of ideals and beliefs determine whether life is noble and full or vulgar and empty. Pursuing lofty ideals and strengthening lofty beliefs are the spiritual pillars and motivation for college students to grow up healthily, achieve their careers, create their lives and create their future.

1. Guide college students to become themselves.

In the goal of "four haves" with ideals, morality, education and discipline, it is a life topic that students face in their study and life to put ideals in a prominent position and be a man. Only by establishing lofty ideals and beliefs can we solve this important life topic well.

2. What road should college students take?

During college, students generally face a series of life issues. To solve these problems, we need a general principle and goal, which requires the establishment of scientific lofty ideals and beliefs.

3. What is the motivation for college students to learn?

For contemporary college students, the question of why to study is closely related to the question of which way to go and who to be. Students should link their personal aspirations with the destiny of the motherland and the nation, so that the flowers of ideals and beliefs can bear fruitful fruits. Section 2 Establishing scientific ideals and beliefs is the deep core of people's spiritual world. Whether there are ideals and beliefs is like a watershed, which not only distinguishes people from animals, but also distinguishes a noble and fulfilling life from a vulgar and empty life. People with aspirations have a long-term vision, while those without ambitions will always yearn for it. Life needs to establish scientific ideals and beliefs. To establish scientific ideals and beliefs, we must first strengthen Marxist beliefs and correctly understand the dialectical unity relationship between personal ideals and social ideals, ideals and lofty ideals. First, establish the ideal of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

1, strengthen the trust in China * * * production party.

China * * * Production Party is the vanguard of the working class in China, the vanguard of the people of China and the Chinese nation, and the leading core of the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. The leading position of China's * * * production party is formed by history, and it is the choice of China people in their long and arduous struggle. Adhering to the leadership of China * * Production Party is the rational choice of people of insight and the general public in China in the process of continuous exploration, and it is the logical "reason" of historical development.

2. Unswervingly take the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

The socialist system is the road choice for China's * * * production party to lead the people of the whole country, and it is also the logic of China's social development.

3. Firmly realize the confidence of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The Chinese nation is a great nation with a long history. In the long history of thousands of years, it has created splendid civilization and made universally recognized important contributions to the development and progress of mankind. China's * * * production party shoulders the solemn mission of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The unity of the Party led the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to complete the historical task of national independence and people's liberation, which laid the most important basic premise for realizing national rejuvenation. Many years after the founding of New China, especially in recent years, China's socialist construction has made great achievements that have attracted worldwide attention. The great rejuvenation of the nation requires generations of Chinese sons and daughters to work hard together. Second, establish Marxist belief.

Marxism is the ideological system for the proletariat and the masses to strive for their own liberation. It is an important prerequisite for young college students to realize their life ideals in practice to be convinced of the correctness of this theory, arm their minds with this theory and establish scientific beliefs.

Scientific nature of Marxist belief;

1. Marxism is scientific and lofty.

2. Marxism has lasting vitality.

3. Marxism takes transforming the world as its own responsibility. In the third quarter, it built a bridge to the other side of the ideal. The ideal is beautiful, but it can neither be formed spontaneously nor realized spontaneously. If you want to have an ideal, you must deeply identify with it; If you want to realize your ideal, you must work hard to pursue it. Firm belief, persistent pursuit and unremitting struggle are the bridge to the other side of the ideal. First of all, aim high and start from one step.

1, be ambitious

In the traditional culture of China, especially in the philosophy of life, we attach great importance to "ambition". The word "ambition" has two meanings: one is to establish goals and directions; The second is to pursue with tenacious will. It can be seen that "ambition" is ideal and belief. And establishing ideals and beliefs is "determination." Zhuge Liang said, "Aim high." Su Shi, a writer in the Song Dynasty, said: "People who made great achievements in ancient times were not only talented, but also determined to persevere." Numerous facts throughout the ages have proved that the lofty aspirations established in youth are the key to future success.

2. Determined to do great things

Sun Yat-sen once said that you should be determined to do great things, not to be a big official.

3. Determined to practice

"The tree of hugs was born in a little bit, on a nine-story platform, starting with dirt, and a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." To realize lofty ideals, we should start from me, from now on, and from ordinary work. Ambition needs to be realized step by step, step by step, step by step, and don't let it fail. Second, recognize the long-term and arduous nature of realizing the ideal and stumble.

In the process of pursuing ideals, we need to have a correct understanding and attitude. Misunderstanding of ideals and beliefs and biased attitudes will affect people's pursuit of ideals, thus affecting their realization. Therefore, it is very necessary to fully realize the long-term and arduous nature of the realization of the ideal and stumble, and pursue the ideal with a correct understanding and attitude.

Correctly treat the prosperity and adversity in the process of realizing the ideal, Lao Tzu said, "Misfortune depends on happiness, and happiness lies in misfortune." Zhang Haidi said that if there are 100 failures and setbacks, there must be 10 1 times of struggle and pursuit. Third, turn the ideal into reality in practice.

Ideals are formed in practice and can only be realized in practice. Once the ideal is established, it's time to put it into action.

First of all, we should deal with the dialectical relationship between ideal and reality: ideal and reality are a pair of contradictions and a unity of opposites. Facing the contradiction and conflict between ideal and reality, it is not advisable to give up or lower ideal, which can only make people negative and mediocre, and is not a promising choice for young people. Only by adhering to lofty ideals and changing reality to make reality develop in the ideal direction is the correct way to correctly solve the contradiction between ideal and reality. Being brave in practice and working hard is the fundamental way to realize your dream. Feuerbach once said that the transition from ideal to reality only has a place in practical philosophy. Teaching summary:

College students should not only have solid basic knowledge and professional knowledge, but also establish lofty ideals and firm beliefs, correctly handle the relationship between individuals and society, and turn their ideals into reality in the practice of serving the country.

Question inquiry:

In some colleges and universities, some college students have a crisis of faith, are biased against ideals, play with ideals and think that "ideals are beneficial." "It is better to talk about ideals than to talk about interests".

Ideal is the goal of life, and faith is the spiritual power of life. As contemporary college students, we must demand progress. And warned us that the biggest emptiness in life is spiritual emptiness. Therefore, as young intellectuals, they should first pursue knowledge and truth in their pursuit of life, which is the most important pursuit of young intellectuals. Only by constantly seeking truth can we make real progress. Secondly, in the pursuit of life, we should maintain noble pursuit and abandon the pursuit of low taste. First, learn to be a man. Both students who ask to join the party and ordinary students should learn this and know how to be a social person in order to set up lofty ideals; Second, learn to learn. The ideal spirit we should have when studying in university is to know how to learn, master learning methods and skills, and form the habit of lifelong learning. University teaching is to teach you to "fish", not to teach you to "fish".

1. Ideal is a person's yearning for and pursuit of possible goals in the future, or something that a person yearns for or wants to imitate, and it is a person's subjective image. Ideal is the goal that one pursues and strives for. For example, when you ask a middle school student what his ideal is, his answer may be that he will become a scientist, engineer or writer in the future. Scientists, engineers and writers are the goals and objects that middle school students actively yearn for and pursue. These goals and targets reflect the personal wishes of middle school students and guide their direction and future. Here, the ideal is related to a person's wishes, and it is an idea of the future. Its place of residence is not directly related to the current action. However, ideals and real life are linked. If some objects and phenomena in real life meet personal needs and personal world outlook, these realistic factors will be manifested in personal ideals and forms. Ideal is always a reprocessing process of real life, discarding some components and emphasizing some factors, but it must be based on the understanding of objective laws and conform to them. For example, when a film director creates an ideal character, this character is not only the director's re-processing and re-selection of the real character, but also makes this character conform to the director's wishes; But this character must conform to the objective laws and be integrated with the real life environment, otherwise, this character will become a "Gao Daquan" on the surface and a "fake sky" in essence, and it is impossible to truly become a typical character with flesh and blood and personality. From the content of a person's ideal, it can be divided into two categories: personal ideal and social ideal. Personal ideal is the vision and hope for personal future, including career ideal, truth ideal, life ideal and family ideal; Social ideal is the pursuit and yearning for a better social system. Personal ideal and social ideal are interrelated, in which social ideal is at the highest level, is the core of ideal, restricts personal ideal, and personal ideal is the concrete embodiment of social ideal. If a person does not have lofty social ideals, but only pursues his own personal ideals divorced from social reality, it is not in line with the spirit of the times and is also a low-level ideal; On the other hand, if there is only social ideal without personal ideal, it is also empty and unrealistic. A person's ideal is often formed and developed under the influence of family education, school education and social environment. Generally speaking, with the growth of age, the growth of knowledge, the broadening of horizons, the influence of family and school gradually weakened, the influence of society gradually increased, and ideal forms also existed at different levels. Some psychologists in our country divide the ideal form of middle school students into three development levels from the cognitive point of view: one is the primary level, that is, the concrete image ideal, which is mainly manifested in the lower grades of middle school students; One is intermediate, that is, the ideal comprehensive image, which is mainly manifested in middle school students; One is a higher level, that is, universal ideal, which is mainly manifested in senior three students. In other words, the older the middle school students, the higher their grades and the higher their ideal level. With regard to the development level of middle school students' ideal tendency, Chinese psychologists divide middle school students' ideals into the following four types through questionnaire survey, direct dialogue and analysis: the first type: the ideal is superficial and vague, with no clear direction and goal. For example, "I have no idea about the future, I just want to live freely", "I think what kind of person I want to be, I'm not sure yet" and so on. The emergence of this mentality is related to the age, knowledge and physical and mental development level of teenagers at this stage. Because their thoughts are immature and their education can't keep up, they still lack clear goals. The second category: longing and longing for the future, but not conscious enough, sometimes vacillating. For example, "my family and teachers always encourage me to work hard, and I am encouraged by the exemplary deeds of advanced figures, but I shrink back when I encounter difficulties." The ideological mainstream of these students is upward, but they still lack persistence and firmness. The third category: the ideal is to find a good job in the future. For example, "I want to go to college in the future and find an ideal job." This kind of students associate their ideals with their careers, but often separate their personal goals from the future of the country and the interests of the people, which requires strengthening political and ideological work and education on outlook on life. The fourth category: have lofty ideals, organically combine personal interests with national interests, and be able to make down-to-earth efforts. For example, among many high school students who are about to graduate, the idea of accepting the choice of the motherland and obeying the arrangement of the motherland can be established. This kind of students have a higher level of understanding and their ideals are more in line with the spirit of the times. Facts show that most middle school students have lofty ideals at present, which reflects that the mainstream of middle school students is healthy and progressive.

2. Belief refers to a person's personality tendency to firmly believe in the correctness of a certain point of view and dominate his own actions. Faith is a conscious ideological tendency, which encourages a person to act according to his own views, principles and world outlook. It is the direction and goal of a person's efforts in long-term practical activities based on his own life content and accumulated knowledge. Faith has a sense of firmness. Countless revolutionary martyrs firmly believe that only socialism and capitalism can save China and free the people of China from exploitation and oppression and lead a happy life. So socialism and * * * productism became their beliefs, and they stood firm and went forward, even if they gave their lives for it. Xia, a revolutionary martyr, wrote a just poem, "It doesn't matter if you behead, as long as the doctrine is true, Xia will be killed and future generations will come", which reflects the firm belief of this generation of revolutionaries in * * * integrism. Faith has a sense of stability. Generally speaking, belief is a person's stable and long-term view and recognition of social development direction, natural laws and a theoretical viewpoint, and shows great enthusiasm and deep feelings for it. Only when a person has a firm belief can he make his personality initiative and enthusiasm; People who lack faith are often ambiguous, vacillating and prone to political and action deviations. Under the complicated international situation, the drastic changes in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and the temporary low tide of the socialist movement, some people have a "crisis of faith" and questioned the future and destiny of socialism. In this situation, it has become an urgent political task to educate middle school students and the whole young generation to establish a firm belief in socialism and consciously curb the corrosion of bourgeois ideas. This generation of middle school students and teenagers, only by firmly establishing the beliefs of socialism and productism, can make them have correct goals, clear directions and firm actions, and consciously shoulder the historical responsibility of training themselves as successors of the socialist cause.

3. worldview worldview is a person's fundamental view of the whole world. The world outlook is based on a person's scientific, systematic and rich understanding of nature, life, society and spirit. It includes natural view, social view, outlook on life and values. World outlook is not only an understanding of problems, but also a firm belief and positive action. For example, the world outlook of capitalism includes not only the knowledge and insight of capitalism, but also the belief of capitalism, the spirit of struggle and positive actions to realize capitalism. The world outlook has a distinct class nature, and different classes will have different world views: the bourgeois world outlook is to safeguard the capitalist exploitation system; The proletarian world outlook is to overthrow the bourgeois exploitation system and establish a more just, reasonable and equal socialist capitalist system. The bourgeois world outlook believes in idealism and metaphysical philosophy; The proletarian world outlook believes in Marxist dialectical materialism and historical materialism philosophy. These two world views are always in constant struggle and always in opposition to each other. As a person, the world outlook is always organically linked with his ideals and beliefs, and the world outlook is always at the highest level, which plays a leading and guiding role in ideals and beliefs; At the same time, the world outlook is also the highest level of personality tendency. It is the highest regulator of human behavior, which restricts people's whole psychological outlook and directly affects people's personality quality. It can be said that the world outlook determines a person's values and outlook on life. Values refer to people's evaluation of the needs of objective things, including their views on the meaning of human existence and life, that is, outlook on life, which belongs to the category of personality tendency. Values have a wide range of meanings, from the basic value orientation of life to the individual's attitude towards specific things. Outlook on life is regarded as the fundamental view of the meaning and purpose of life. Whether a person's world outlook is correct or not will directly affect his values and outlook on life. At present, for middle school students, it is very important to carry out the education of correct world outlook, values and outlook on life, which is the premise of cultivating their good personality. As a contemporary middle school student, it is far from enough to get good grades. You should also master the objective laws of world development, establish correct values, deeply understand the meaning and purpose of life, and establish the ambition to study hard and make progress for the motherland and the nation. Only in this way can we cultivate our good personality, adapt to the demand for talents in the 2 1 century and make contributions to the realization of the "four modernizations" of socialism.

Understanding the content and knowledge of personality tendency is obvious and can not be underestimated for contemporary middle school students to establish a correct world outlook and lofty ideals, develop good personality qualities, and determine values and outlook on life that meet the requirements of the socialist era.