在人类社会迈向21世纪之际,我们正面临着激烈的经济竞争,而经济竞争归根结底是国民素质的竞争。从根本上看,要走向现代化,最大的障碍不是资源和资金问题,也不是技术和设备问题,而是人的素质问题。为了提高全民族的素质,党和国家把教育放在“为本”的战略位置上,千方百计地发展教育事业。素质教育是教育事业、尤其是基础教育的根本任务。 　然而,长期以来,基础教育一直在应试教育的轨道上运行。应试,这成为学校教育的一切,学校教育的任务就址接爱考试,教师就是教学生怎样去接受考试,学生学习就是为了争取考试能得高分。考试分数的高低以及学生升学的多少成为评估学校、奖罚教师的唯一标准。有的地方甚至给 As human society moves toward the 21st century, we are facing fierce economic competition. In the final analysis, economic competition is the competition of national quality. Fundamentally, the biggest obstacle to modernization is not the issue of resources and funds, nor the problems of technology and equipment, but the quality of people. In order to improve the quality of the entire nation, the Party and the country place education in a strategic position of “based on the foundation” and do everything possible to develop education. Quality education is the fundamental task of education, especially basic education. However, basic education has been operating on the track of exam-oriented education for a long time. This will be the school education. The task of school education is to address the love test. The teacher is how to teach students to take the test. The student learns to get high marks for the test. The level of test scores and the number of students entering the school become the only criteria for assessing schools and awarding teachers. Some places even give