Abstract: For the shortcomings of intellectually moral education, many scholars put forward an idea that moral education should "Return to the Life". The concept of "Return to the Life" moral education generally includes two values: adapting to life and going beyond life. However, in our country, a large number of research and practice on the value orientation of moral education show that it is common to see the choices and application of the adaptive orientation of moral education, which make the moral education become vulgar, utilitarian and other tendencies, ignoring the essence of moral education-transcendence value orientation, namely, prominence of student-oriented status and constructing the possible life. Therefore, we should give a correct understanding of the relationship between the two values of adaptability and transcendence of moral education and pay more attention to the transcendence value orientation of moral education, to enhance people's spiritual realm and pursuit.