Gratitude, a virtue of traditional Chinese, is the important means to meet people emotional and belonging needs. However, people in actual social life are not fully aware of the essence of gratitude and gratitude education and there do exist many problems in gratitude education activities. For example, our gratitude education is just the moral education for receivers and people do not realize its essence, gratitude education activities are superficialized. Thus, in this paper, these problems are analyzed and some suggestions are proposed to help students to get the real gratitude education.