Confucius put forward the idea of quality education more than two thousand years ago. As for the object of education, Confucius put forward the principle of "teaching without distinction", and believed that people can and should receive education regardless of their origin, good character, intelligence and stupidity, age and occupation. In terms of educational content, Confucius attaches importance to moral education, aesthetic education and physical health, and attaches importance to cultivating students' ability, so that students' personality can be fully developed; In teaching methods, Confucius pioneered the heuristic teaching method before Socrates. He practiced "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" according to their different characteristics, and advocated that teaching should learn from each other and teachers and students should discuss it together as a conventional teaching form. A comprehensive summary of Confucius' thoughts on quality education is of great practical significance for us to fully understand the connotation of quality education and promote educational reform today.

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In 1982, it says:

Quality education came into being as early as 1982. The party and the state resolutely oppose the one-sided pursuit of enrollment rate, that is, exam-oriented education, resolutely implement quality education, and implement the educational policy of all-round development. Despite the difficulties, the new curriculum reform should continue to advance.

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In the 1980s, around 1983, some educators began to put forward the concept of quality, which we often said later that "quality education is a basket in which everything is put". That is a definition of some distorted practices in the process of promoting quality education later. But I think quality education was actually put forward as a basket. For example, if we sum up these things, such as double basics, ability, intelligence and non-intelligence factors, I will sum them up with one thing. What should I sum them up with? Some comrades said, let's summarize it by quality. Therefore, quality education contains the connotations that we have expanded after deepening our education. The proposal of quality has attracted the attention of many first-line schools in China's education sector. For example, Beijing No.8 Middle School, the earliest one in Beijing, advocated "focusing on the future and paying attention to quality" in 1983. 1983 has formulated a very complete outline of school quality education, and put forward what aspects of school quality should be based on and how to cultivate it. This is the first complete quality outline we can find now.