Public spirit，bearing the value of rationality，righteousness and independence and equality，is an important part of socialist core values，and plays a positive leading role in national education and spiritual civilization. Strengthening the cultivation of graduate students’public spirit in the management of postgraduate education can not only enhance their sense of social responsibility，but also help to show the eternal charm and gracefulness of contemporary time of Chinese traditional culture. Colleges and universities should combine their own advantages and reality to excavate the core of public spirit，and establish a perfect cultivation mechanism of public spirit for postgraduates so as to exert multiple functions of the public spirit cultivation on the management of postgraduate education.