Quality education is indeed better than exam-oriented education. But the situation in China is very special. Why is quality education in China always inseparable from examinations? Because we have a large population, we face too much competition from birth. Survival of the fittest. The best way to judge is the exam. I remember the teacher said before that we criticized exams all day, but is there a better, fairer and more effective way than exams? number
This phenomenon is not unique to China. East Asian countries are basically the same. Especially in Japan, students basically teach exam machines.
Children in China are the hardest.