邓小平思想政治教育理论是邓小平理论的重要组成部分，是对马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想政治教育学说的继承和发展。邓小平关于思想政治教育的地位和作用、根本目的、主要内容、基本原则和方法等方面的一系列重要思想，是做好新时期思想政治教育的根本指导思想和行动指南。 Deng Xiaoping’s theory of ideological and political education is an important part of Deng Xiaoping Theory and is the inheritance and development of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong’s ideological and political education theory. Deng Xiaoping’s series of important thoughts on the status and role of ideological and political education, its fundamental purposes, main contents, basic principles and methods are the fundamental guiding ideology and action guide for doing ideological and political education in the new period.