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Basic characteristics of quality education
The basic characteristics of "quality education";

Holy;

Basic;

Developmental;

Comprehensive;

Futurism.

[Integrity]: The so-called "integrity" in a broad sense means that quality education must be oriented to all people, and any member of society must receive a certain degree of basic education through formal or informal channels. The "integrity" of quality education in a narrow sense refers to opening the door to formal basic education for all school-age children. Adhering to the "integrity" of quality education is mainly defined as follows: First, ensuring education becomes everyone's right and obligation. Education is the most important and basic right of every child. Second, ensure that the cultural literacy of the whole nation is above the minimum acceptable level, put an end to the emergence of new illiteracy, and primary and secondary education should serve to improve the basic quality of the whole people and promote national economic development and democratic construction. Third, implement the socialist principle of "equal opportunity" and provide the fairest premise for everyone's sustainable development. The ultimate goal of quality education is to lay a quality foundation for qualified citizens in the future.

[Foundation]: The so-called "foundation" is relative to the major (occupation) and orientation. Quality education provides children and teenagers with "basic quality" instead of professional quality or professional quality, so that students have "general knowledge" instead of becoming "small experts" in a specific field or a "small expert" in a certain labor occupation. The main significance of adhering to the "fundamentality" of quality education lies in the following: First, a person can "migrate" to a higher level of quality or professional quality only if he has good basic quality. Basic education aims at developing and perfecting people's basic quality, so many people point out that the essence of basic education is quality education. Second, human beings contain great freedom of development, which is human plasticity. The higher the degree of freedom, the stronger the plasticity; Or vice versa, Dallas' education in the auditorium is the cause of shaping and cultivating people. If basic education is full of targeted and professional training, instead of laying a solid foundation, it is equivalent to restraining the long and short, regressing the non-professional function to the professional function, narrowing the freedom of development and suffocating people's plasticity. Thirdly, in the sense of educational cybernetics, education is an artificial and optimized control process, which enables the educated to develop continuously according to the predetermined goals. However, if basic education is limited to vocational and orientation training, the possibility space that should have been expanded and developed will stagnate and shrink prematurely. Isn't this against the original meaning of the word education (optimal control)? How can we expect the trained students to be good at coping with the complicated and changeable "uncertainty" of society?

[Development]: The so-called "development" means focusing on cultivating students' knowledge and ability of self-learning, self-education and self-development, and really shifting students' focus to enlightening their minds, cultivating their potential and enhancing their stamina. This emphasizes the cultivation of ability and the promotion of development, that is, correctly handling the relationship between knowledge and ability. Although knowledge and ability are not exactly the same thing, if the learned knowledge is "activated" and can be put into operation with strong vitality, then this knowledge can be successfully transformed into ability and become a part of human wisdom. The "development" of quality education emphasizes "learning to learn and learning to survive". Real education is to form self-education. The direct driving force of self-education ability is everyone's subjective initiative. Therefore, quality education advocates respecting, exerting and perfecting students' subjectivity. It attaches great importance to cultivating students' strong creative desire, consciousness and ability. "Development" essentially conforms to the trend of "transformational education view", that is, taking adapting to change and learning to change as an important goal of education, from accepting teaching (teachers give answers) to "solving problems" (teachers cause thinking). Teachers play the role of encourager, promoter, communicator, helper and consultant.

[comprehensiveness]: The so-called "comprehensiveness" means that quality education should not only achieve functional goals, but also reflect formative requirements, and promote the optimal development of students by realizing all-round development education. Because quality education should be a perfect education, pointing to comprehensive basic quality. The fundamental goal of quality education is to promote the all-round development of students. It should be pointed out that "all-round development" has been included in the educational goals of many countries in the world (including developed and developing countries). However, our task is to explore the specific provisions of "all-round development" in socialist quality education. We believe that "all-round development" in quality education has two specific provisions. First, for individuals, it is the unity of "general development" and "special development"; The second is the coordination of "common development" and "differential development" among classes, schools and even the whole social group. All-round development should emphasize both generality and individuality. Never exclude attention to the development of individual special aspects, and allow individuals in the group to have different development. All-round development can never be understood as unified development and all-round development. All-round development is actually "optimal development". Optimization does not mean idealization, but strives to achieve the best possible effect for specific conditions. Only in this way can each student have the confidence to find a "breakthrough" or "growth point" for development according to his own characteristics and break the pattern of "one thousand people".

All-round development is the optimal development, and it is also the optimal development of personality. "Developing individuality" is the common trend of education reform in the world. Recently, Chinese psychologists put forward the suggestion of "analyzing personality from the perspective of system-structure", emphasizing the Marxist view that personality is a social entity and grasping "personality" from the perspective of human psychology as a whole. Therefore, personality can be defined as "the psychological dynamic system formed by individuals in the process of socialization", which shows that personality is the unity of generality and individuality, dynamics and stability, the product of socialization and the sum of social relations.

Based on pedagogy, proceeding from reality and adhering to the socialist direction of quality education, we can think that "personality" is "a different optimized structure of the sum of the basic qualities and accomplishments of socialist citizens in each student". Its characteristics are as follows: ① "individuality" must be based on the sum of the basic qualities and accomplishments of socialist citizens, emphasizing the commonness of personality development; ② "Personality" is also the different structure of the basic quality and accomplishment of socialist citizens in each student. This different structure is a unique aspect of each student's personality development, and it is the basis of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and varying from person to person. We should not only admit that every student should have a different quality structure, but also make this structure as reasonable as possible. Optimizing the structure is the responsibility of educators. In a word, bringing the optimized development of personality into the track of quality education is a reliable guarantee for training the younger generation to become builders and successors of the socialist cause with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique.

[Futurism]: The so-called "futurity" refers to the needs of the future society, not the immediate goal of further education or employment needs. Generally speaking, education is sui and conservative, always trying to let the younger generation learn the way of thinking, life style and work of the older generation. Therefore, when people criticize the limitations or disadvantages of the modern school education system, they often criticize that it was designed according to yesterday's needs. Quality education is to change the inertia and conservatism of education, and its goal is to make the younger generation adapt to the needs of future development.