原国家教委主任朱开轩同志有一段表述:素质教育从本质上说,是以提高全民素质为宗旨的教育,是为实现教育方针规定的目标、着眼于受教育群体和社会长远发展的要求、面向全体学生、提高学生的基本素质为根本目的,以注重开发受教育者的潜能、促进受教育者德智体诸方面生动活泼地发 Comrade Zhu Kaixuan, former director of the State Education Commission, had a statement: Quality education is essentially an education aimed at improving the quality of the entire people. It is aimed at realizing the objectives of the educational policy, focusing on the needs of the educated community and the long-term development of society, and facing the whole. The basic purpose of the students is to improve the basic qualities of the students, with a focus on the development of the potential of the educated and to promote the lively and lively development of all aspects of the educated person.