Vice Premier Li Lanqing pointed out: "Quality education is essentially an education to improve the quality of the people." This is the stipulation of the concept of quality education in the level of educational purpose from the perspective of educational philosophy, which distinguishes quality education from other education that does not aim at improving national quality.
Quality education clearly embodies the basic characteristics of basic education.
1. Quality education is an education that focuses on development and lays a foundation. Its fundamental task is to lay a solid and stable foundation for every student's future development and growth. The connotation of "foundation" here is very rich, including extensive and comprehensive foundations such as ideological and moral quality, scientific and cultural quality, physical and psychological quality, labor skill quality and aesthetic quality.
2. People's quality is a kind of "sum of relatively stable physical and mental organizational elements based on innate endowment and formed and developed under the influence of education and environment". Quality education relies on outstanding cultural achievements accumulated in human history to form students' all-round quality and develop their healthy personality, which inevitably requires that the objectives, contents and methods of education remain relatively stable.
3. People's quality is relatively stable and contemporary. Therefore, on the basis of maintaining relative stability, school education is required to properly absorb the latest scientific and cultural achievements according to the development of the times and social needs, and adjust, enrich and improve educational objectives, contents and methods to meet the challenges of modern society and the future world. Because quality education better embodies the basic characteristics of basic education, quality education is a high-level basic education.