1. Different meanings:

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 the sense.

Exam-oriented education (also known as cramming education) (the essence of the current education system in China) is usually regarded as an education system with the main purpose of improving students' ability to take exams and attaching great importance to test scores, recitation and problem solving, which is different from quality education.

2. There are differences and unification between quality education and exam-oriented education.

Difference:

(1) The goal of quality education is to improve the national quality; The goal of exam-oriented education is to teach and learn for exams.

(2) Quality education aims at improving the quality of citizens, and must be geared to all students and every future citizen; But "exam-oriented education" focuses on a few promising students.

(3) In order to improve the national quality, quality education emphasizes 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.

Unity: Quality education and exam-oriented education are interrelated and interdependent, and they are rooted in the specific requirements of social politics and economy. As a kind of communication culture, education reflects the objective requirements of social politics and economy at that time from the aspects of purpose, content, methods and means. Only by constant practice can we keep improving.

We can't think that the past education was "exam-oriented education" and deny it completely. Quality education is an education that comprehensively implements the educational policy, corrects the tendency of one-sided pursuit of enrollment rate, is based on the economic and social development in the 2/kloc-0 century, aims at improving the overall quality of the people, arranges teaching according to the learners' own development laws, and attaches importance to the comprehensive and harmonious development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor. It is also a sublation of exam-oriented education, which has both opposite and unified aspects.