思想政治工作是经济工作和其他一切工作的生命线，是我们党的优良传统，是党和社会主义国家的重要政治优势。随着社会的发展，思想政治教育的环境、任务、内容、渠道和对象都发生了很大变化，只有在继承优良传统的基础上，针对变化了的现实不断进行改进和创新，才能发挥其应有的效力。高校思想政治教育当然也不例外，改革开放以来，各类信息从多种渠道不断作用于大学生，对大学生的思想产生着巨大的震撼和影响。在这种情况下，思想政治教育正经历着艰难转型的阵痛。要使思想政治教育走出困境，发挥出应有的效力，就必须树立和贯彻“以人为本”的思想理念。 思想政治教育要以人为本是因为思想政治教育是做人的思想工作，其主体、对象、出发点和归宿点都是人。在思想政治教育中确立“以人为本”的思想理念是对思想政治教育本质的再认识，是思想政治教育价值的回归，是对马克思主义思想政治教育的继承和发展。 高校思想政治教育实践“以人为本”的理念，必须把关注大学生的思想特征，引导和满足大学生的心理需要作为出发点；把注重个性发展、培养创新精神，塑造主体人格、促进人格完善作为思想政治教育的目标；把握主体性、层次性和尊重的思想政治教育原则；在教育内容上贴近实际，体现时代特征；在方法上实行灌输与疏导相统一，感情与说理相统一，言教与身教相统一；在主体上建立民主平等的师生关系；同时要通过强化主体意识、强化主体素质来提高教育者自身素质，建立专家型的思想政治教育队伍。

The ideological and political work is the lifelines of all economic work and other work, it is the fine tradition of our party, and it is the important political advantages of the party and socialist state. With the development of society, great changes have all taken place to the environment, task, content, channel and target of ideological and political education, only on the basis of inheriting fine tradition, are improving and innovating constantly to the reality of changing, could give play to its due effect. The university ideological and political education is certainly no exception, Since reform and opening-up, all kinds of information is acting on university students from many kinds of channels constantly, produce enormous shock and influence to university students’ thought. In this case, ideological and political education is going through the difficult pain that is making the transition. Make ideological and political education extricate oneself from a plight, give play to the due effect, must establish and carry out the thought idea that “ people first”. Ideological and political education wants people first because ideological and political education is the ideological work conducting oneself, it is all people that its subject, target, starting point and home click. It is to ideological and political education essential knowing to establish the thought idea that “ people first ” in ideological and political education, it is the return of the ideological and political education value, it is inheriting to ideological and political education of Marxism and development. University ideology and politics educational practice idea on “ people first ”, must pay close attention to thought characteristic of university student, lead and meet psychology of university students’ needs as the starting point; Pay attention to individual character develop, train initiative spirit, mould subject personality, promote personality perfect as goal of ideological and political education; Hold the entity, level and ideological and political education principle respected; Press close to reality on the educational content, reflect the characteristic of the time; Inculcates and dredges to unify on the method, the emotion is unified with arguing, teach by precept and teach others by his own example to unify ; Establish the teacher-student relationship with equal democracy on the subject ; Improve educator’s quality through strengthening subject consciousness , strengthening subject quality at the same time , set up the ideological and political education team of the expert type.