Different approaches to the quality of education

Today a need to improve the quality of education is in the centre of public attention. A basic problem in the discussions on the quality of education emerges from the fact that the term 'quality' is widely interpreted. The text points to multiple meanings of the term quality of education, and to its different interpretations. The nature and the essence of different theories of education have been recognized, and different interpretations of the quality of education in them were analyzed. The analysis shows that different approaches to the quality of education reflect different views on the fact what one would like to accomplish with the education. It means that a definition of the quality of education has been essentially determined with the education aims. The issue of the quality of education cannot be separated from much broader ethical discussion on values which have been found in its base. Therefore, the text emphasizes a need to understand numerous philosophies of education, and concludes that promoting only one opinion trend in the theoretical foundation of the quality, while ignoring the others, can have negative consequences on understanding of this complex phenomenon and thus on attempts for its improvement