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 exam-oriented education are corresponding, but they are not absolutely opposite concepts, because they are not antonyms in meaning.

Different goals

The goal of quality education is to improve the national quality; The goal of "exam-oriented education" is "teaching for exams and learning for exams". Under the guidance of this goal, even if the quality of some students can be developed at a shallow level objectively, it can only be one-sided at the expense of other aspects of development.

Object-oriented differences

The goal of quality education is to improve the quality of the people, and it must be oriented to all students and every future citizen; "Exam-oriented education" focuses on a few students who are expected to enter higher education, ignoring most students, and even labeling normal children as "mentally retarded" so that they are not included in the score statistics.

Different educational methods

Quality education aims at improving the national quality, emphasizing that educators should give full play to their creative spirit, design and organize scientific education and teaching activities from the reality of the school, and promote the educated to actively internalize the influence of external education into their own stable physical and mental quality in independent activities; "Examination-oriented education" makes educators follow the baton of examination step by step, and the basic characteristics of teaching methods are indoctrination, preaching and passive acceptance.