试论推行素质教育的必然性

Inevitability of Carrying out Quality Eductaion

改革开放要求中国社会的教育必须进行由应试教育转向素质教育的改革，这是时代和社会发展的需要，是加强社会主义精神文明建设的需要，是提高民族素质的客观需要，也是中国教育改革的本质内容。

Reforms and the open- door policy demand that Chinese eductaion carry out quality education rather thanwxamination education.This is the requirement of the times, of the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and of the improvement of national quality;it is also the essence of educational reforms in China.