Quality education tends to cultivate applied talents.

Quality education refers to an educational model aimed at improving the quality of the educated in all aspects. It attaches importance to people's ideological and moral quality, ability training, personality development, physical health and mental health education. Quality education and traditional education are corresponding, but they are not absolutely opposite concepts, because they are not antonyms in the sense.

Quality-oriented education refers to the education that comprehensively improves the basic quality of all students, respects students' subjectivity and initiative, pays attention to developing people's wisdom potential and forms a sound personality according to the actual needs of human development and social development.

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.

At present, the definition (or explanation) of quality education in primary and secondary schools in China varies from different angles. According to the "emphasis", someone summed up that "quality education" has 9 categories and 15 definitions. Some of these nine definitions belong to the definition of words; Some belong to the philosophical definition; Some emphasize human development as the starting point; Some emphasize human development and social development; Some emphasize the quality of citizens; Some emphasize the combination of nature and nurture, and some rank various qualities; Some try to divide the quality level; Others emphasize bringing talents into play through scientific channels. Look at these definitions. Although they are expressed in different ways, they have common features:

First, it is considered that quality education is an education with the fundamental purpose of comprehensively improving the basic quality of all students.

Second, quality education should be based on the actual needs of social development and human development. Although some definitions only mention human development, they do not ignore social needs, but emphasize human development in view of the bias of "exam-oriented education" that ignores students' subjectivity.

Third, in a sense, quality reminds people of potential. These definitions all advocate the full development of intellectual potential.

Fourthly, we advocate the full development of intellectual potential, and the all-round development of personality and the cultivation of psychological quality.

As a definition, it should be concise and cover the essential characteristics of essence. According to this requirement and the above analysis, we can try to define quality education as: quality education is based on the actual needs of human development and social development, with the fundamental purpose of comprehensively improving the basic quality of all students, with the fundamental characteristics of respecting students' personality, paying attention to developing people's physical and mental potential and forming people's sound personality.