实施素质教育是我国社会主义现代化建设事业的需要。它体现了基础教育的性质、宗旨与任务。提倡素质教育,有利于遏制目前基础教育中存在着的“应试教育”和片面追求升学率的倾向,有助于把全面发展教育落到实处。从教育面向现代化、面向世界和面向未来的要求看,素质教育势在必行。这是我们基础教育课改的时代主题和紧迫任务。 Carrying out quality education is the need of our country's socialist modernization. It reflects the nature, purpose and tasks of basic education. Promoting quality education is conducive to curbing the “examination-oriented education” existing in basic education and one-sidedly pursuing the rate of entrance into higher education, which will help to bring about the full development of education. From the perspective of education to modernization, the world and the future, quality education is imperative. This is the theme of the times and the urgent task of our basic education curriculum reform.