Implementing quality education is the need of China's socialist modernization. It embodies the nature, purpose and task of basic education. Advocating quality education is conducive to curbing the tendency of "exam-oriented education" and one-sided pursuit of enrollment rate in basic education at present, and to implementing all-round development education. Judging from the requirements of education facing modernization, the world and the future, quality education is imperative. This is the theme and urgent task of our basic education reform.
What is exam-oriented education?
The "exam-oriented education" mentioned here refers to an education that deviates from the actual needs of human development and social development, pursues high scores simply to cope with exams, and unilaterally pursues the enrollment rate. It can also be said that "exam-oriented education" is a derogatory term. The use of lexical subjects. So what is the meaning of "exam-oriented education" is a prescriptive question. There is no right or wrong definition, but there are differences. Conventional understanding or authoritative understanding is preferred.
Although there is no complete consensus on the orientation and meaning of "exam-oriented education", there is a relatively authoritative understanding. In the programmatic document "Outline of Education Reform and Development in China" and the legal document "Outline of the Ninth Five-year Plan and Long-term Plan for National Economic and Social Development in People's Republic of China (PRC) 20 10", the word "exam-oriented education" is put in quotation marks in many more formal scientific papers, indicating that it has a specific connotation and is used as a derogatory term.
Understanding "exam-oriented education" as a derogatory term is not a generalization that completely denies existing education, but a generalization of existing education. "Examination-oriented education" is not a summary of many disadvantages existing in current education, which are purely for examination. "Current education" is a complete reality and existence, with achievements (undoubtedly this is the mainstream and the first), problems, positive factors and negative factors; "Examination-oriented education" is a generalization and abstraction of some problems and disadvantages existing in the reality of "current education".
What is "exam-oriented education" is a prerequisite. If we don't understand this problem, we can't understand the necessity of overcoming the tendency of "exam-oriented education" and getting rid of the influence of "exam-oriented education" If people have different views on this issue, it is meaningless and fruitless to argue whether quality and "exam-oriented education" are in opposition.
What is the relationship between quality and quality education?
Quality is closely related to quality education. The improvement of people's quality is inseparable from education. What kind of quality there is, there should be corresponding quality education. People's quality can be roughly divided into physiological quality, psychological quality and social and cultural quality, and correspondingly, there are physiological quality, psychological quality and social and cultural quality education. If subdivided, people's quality can be divided into ideological and moral quality education, cultural and scientific quality, physical quality, psychological quality, aesthetic quality and labor skill quality, and correspondingly, there are ideological and moral quality education, cultural and scientific quality education, physical quality education, psychological quality education, aesthetic quality education and labor skill quality education. Quality has integrity. People's qualities in all aspects do not exist in isolation, but are interdependent and interdependent whole. Quality education must follow the law of people's overall quality structure, proceed from people's overall quality structure, adapt quality education to people's quality structure, and cultivate people's overall quality. Modern quality education not only goes deep into physical quality and psychological quality, but also extends to social and cultural level. Quality is the unity of individuality, collectivity and nationality. This requires not only the education of individual quality, but also the improvement of group quality, and more importantly, the improvement of the quality of the whole nation.