Meaning definition 1: The word quality in Ci Hai is defined as: ① primitive physiological characteristics of human beings; (2) the true colors of things; (3) the basic conditions necessary to complete an activity. In higher education, quality should be the third definition. That is the definition of college students' ability to engage in social practice. 2. The so-called quality originally refers to the inherent physiological and anatomical characteristics of organisms, which is what physiology says. It is the natural premise and foundation of human ability development. Accordingly, quality is defined as what remains after you forget all the knowledge and books you have learned. It makes sense to think about it. Definition 3: "Quality" refers to a person's intelligence, ability and inner cultivation, that is, talent and moral strength. Today, historian Thomas Carlyle puts special emphasis on the qualities of being a hero and a great man. In his view, "loyalty" and "knowledge" are the most critical standard definitions to distinguish heroes from great men. 4. "Quality" refers to people's physique, quality and cultivation. Quality education is an educational activity aimed at promoting people's quality development and improving the quality and level of people's quality development. A knowledgeable person, without educational ability, can engage in other occupations, but can't engage in teachers' professional resources. The word quality is a physiological concept, which refers to the innate physiological and anatomical characteristics of human beings. Mainly refers to the characteristics of nervous system and brain, sensory organs and motor organs. Quality is the premise of the development of psychological activities. Without this material foundation, psychological development is impossible. Different disciplines have different interpretations of quality, but they all have one thing in common, that is, quality is based on people's physical and psychological reality and on people's natural attributes. In other words, the difference of individual's physical and psychological maturity determines the difference of individual's quality. Therefore, the understanding of people's quality should be based on people's physical and mental organizational structure and quality level. Human qualities include weight quality, psychological quality and cultural quality. Quality is only the physiological condition of people's psychological development, and it can't determine people's psychological content and development level. People's psychological activities are developed by combining genetic quality with environmental education. Once a person's quality is formed, it has the characteristics of internal relative stability. Therefore, people's quality is based on their innate endowment. The internal and relatively stable physical and mental organizational structure and its quality level are formed and developed under the influence of acquired environment and education. Three types and eight qualities refer to natural quality, psychological quality and social quality. Eight qualities refer to political quality, ideological quality, moral quality, professional quality, aesthetic quality, technical quality, physical quality and psychological quality. In a sense, the relationship between education and quality education is put forward for exam-oriented education. If education wants to avoid being included in the track of exam-oriented education, it must recognize many aspects of the opposition between quality education and exam-oriented education. To sum up, quality education mainly pursues the all-round development of students' quality, that is, morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor; Exam-oriented education aims at coping with exams and unilaterally pursues the enrollment rate. Examination-oriented education puts the school's work on a few so-called outstanding students who have prospects for further study. In terms of educational content, quality education attaches importance to the "all-round flowering" of moral education, intellectual education, physical education, aesthetic education and labor technology education, and organically combines several kinds of education; Examination-oriented education only pays attention to intellectual education, and unilaterally emphasizes mastering knowledge and ignores teaching students how to behave. In terms of educational methods, quality education pays attention to teaching students in accordance with their aptitude on the basis of certain common requirements; Examination-oriented education only puts forward unified requirements for a small number of students to enter higher education, and fails to teach students in accordance with their aptitude. Examination-oriented education takes examination as the only evaluation method and score as the only evaluation standard. In terms of educational results, quality education "does not require everyone to go to school, but hopes everyone will succeed" or "pass+specialty" mode for each student; However, in exam-oriented education, only a few students succeed in further studies, while most students' talents are ignored and they go to society with the mentality of losers. From the "opposition" of the above two kinds of education, we can easily see that it is precisely because there are so many negative factors in exam-oriented education that it stimulates and promotes the development of quality education.