This study aims to increase the teaching effectiveness of civic education to nurture students to become the subjects of the moral life. Many of the existing civic education and social development was inadaptable. The author believed that the fundamental problem was the loss of individual subjective value. Traditionally, civic education attached more importance to politicalization, instrumentalization, and put more emphasis on social adaptation but ignored subjectivity. Therefore students were considered as the pure objects of education, and the passive and obedient learners. Prospects for the task and the reform of civic education, the fundamental way was to nurture students to become the subject of the moral life.Civic education should focus on the students' subjectivity. It should recognize and respect for the subjectivity status and the subjectivity character of students. On the basis of the individual subjectivity to nurture and enhance students' autonomy, activity, and creativity; and then to guide students consciously become the subjects of social activities.