Need and “being needed” are important categories in the ideological and political education. They have the ideological and political education functions which can not be ignored. However, most researchers focus their attention on the “needs” of the educated, and pay little attention to the being needed of the educated. This paper, from the perspective of “being needed” of the educated, discusses the functions of the “being needed” to help the educated obtain the sense of existence, enhance the subjective sense, the sense of value, and the sense of responsibility. The paper proposed the approches of the implementation of “being needed” of the educated, namely the democratic way of education, equality of subject status, the friendly interpersonal relations, appreciated type of education means to improve the effectiveness of ideological and political education.
