There has been a heated debate about quality education in China, but facing the exam-oriented education in China, it is bumpy and not optimistic. How to deal with the relationship with exam-oriented education has become the key to promote quality education in China. Contrary to the traditional view that quality education and exam-oriented education are opposite concepts, Yang Jiangnan pointed out in his new book "Teaching Reflection: A Learning Method of Paying Equal Attention to High Scores and Quality" which lasted for 10 years that the real obstacle to quality education lies not in the existence of exams, but in teachers, culture and people's understanding of quality education. Quality education can cope with exams well, and it will do better than exam-oriented education, because it can improve exam results from a long-term perspective through the improvement of comprehensive quality.
Because of different angles, the definition of quality education is different, but different definitions often have common characteristics:
First, it is considered that quality education is an education with the fundamental purpose of comprehensively improving the basic quality of all students;
Secondly, it is believed that quality education should be based on the actual needs of social development and human development;
Third, advocate the full development of intellectual potential and personality, and attach importance to the cultivation of psychological quality.
Therefore, quality education can be defined as: education based on the actual needs of human development and social development, with the fundamental purpose of comprehensively improving the basic quality of all students, respecting students' personality, paying attention to developing people's physical and mental potential, and paying attention to forming a sound personality. Quality education is the education to train higher animals with basic human form into real people with basic human qualities.
Quality in quality education refers to people's inherent, relatively stable and long-term physical and mental characteristics and their basic quality structure, which is often called literacy, on the basis of congenital, through acquired environmental influence, education and training. It mainly includes people's moral quality, intellectual quality, physical quality, aesthetic quality, labor skill quality and so on.
The State Education Commission's Opinions on Actively Promoting Quality Education in Primary and Secondary Schools explains that "Quality education is an education aimed at improving national quality. It is based on the national education policy stipulated in the Education Law, focusing on the requirements of the educated and the long-term development of society, aiming at facing all students and comprehensively improving their basic quality, focusing on cultivating the attitude and ability of the educated, and promoting the lively and positive development of the educated in moral, intellectual and physical aspects. "
Quality education mainly includes internal quality and external quality. Intrinsic quality mainly refers to people's views and significance on the world, environment and life, including people's world outlook, outlook on life, values and morality, that is, people's views on people, things and things, which can also become people's "mentality". External quality is a person's ability, behavior, achievement and so on.
Quality education is an education with the fundamental aim of improving people's basic quality in an all-round way, respecting people's subjectivity and initiative, taking people's personality as the basis, paying attention to developing people's wisdom potential and forming people's sound personality as the fundamental feature. Quality-oriented education is the practical need of social development, aiming at making people correctly face and deal with all things and phenomena in their social environment.