Tso Defense Thinking And The National Defense Education Revelation

National defence education focuses on cultivating civil patriotic feeling, national responsibility and revolutionary heroism. Any countries vigorously develop because of his civil stimulation ,great cohesion and achieved goal. Zuo zhongtang , a national hero in Qing Dynasty, made great contributions for the Chinese people in the historical and humiliating period, and especially his national defence thinking is still of great value and reference significance in our present-day national defence education.The paper gives an objective analysis of his national defence thinking in such aspects as its formation backgrounds ,conditions ,individual causes and so on by adopting the theories like quality education, military value and the research methods like literature and history. Meanwhile, it refers to the present world military situations and China's national defence. And by Zuo Zhongtang's thinking and features, it offers a general and systematic study and reasoning of reference significance in our present-day national defence education of our universitiesIn the study of his national defence thinking, it is found that its thinking reveals the significance to our present-day national defence education of our universities. The education should center on the theme "self-striving , wealth-seeking, aggression-resisting ",which brings forth the education's fundamental demands and history tasks in terms of value judgement and talent training. Similarly, it is of great benefit for our university students to have a better knowledge of the Chinese present situation and to gain the patriotism education so as to inspire their passion for their own country and their nationality pride.Moreover, the university students should be encouraged the aspiration for becoming a useful person to render service to their own country. It is possible to turn the historical research into the realistic service.