教育公平是实现和谐社会的重要途径和重要基础。华中师范大学周洪宇教授把教育公平喻为和谐社会这只“大桶”最重要也是最短的一块“木板”。而教育质量的公平毋庸置疑应是这块“木板”的质地和核心,此“木板”质地的优劣于和谐社会这个“大桶”的作用不言而喻。农村尤其是西部偏远山区教育质量无疑是这块“木板”的“最软肋”,唯有提高农村山区的教育质量才能使这块“最软肋”走向优质化,而提高教育质量的 Education equity is an important way and an important basis for achieving a harmonious society. Professor Zhou Hongyu of Central China Normal University equated education fairness with the “big barrel”, the most important and shortest piece of “wooden board” in a harmonious society. The undoubtedly fair quality of education should be the texture and core of this “plank”. The quality of the “plank” texture is a function of the “big barrel” of a harmonious society. The quality of education in rural areas, especially in remote mountainous areas in the west, is undoubtedly the “softest point” of this “plank”. Only by improving the quality of education in rural mountainous areas can we make this “softest rib” toward high quality and improve the quality of education.