Hi TLS, I had just found you on the net a couple of days ago, and wasn't going to write till I waded through a few of your archives to see what has already been said to avoid repetition. However, last night on (Australian) television - and I would like to apologise from the onset that my introduction uses tv as a basis, especially as I rarely tune in - I saw a movie called "Dead Poet's Society" and it struck me how Hollwood has unwittingly presented a glaring yet simple example of MOQ.
The movie is set in a private prep school in America in the sixties.
The elite prep school, musty with tradition, rules and authority, diligently carrying forth the weighty academic learning, even looks solid, indestructible in its momentous building and grounds, a sturdy quality base instilling SQ learning.
Along comes a former student, now teacher of English literature and poetry, to do what is obviously his passion - teach. But what is he really teaching?
His methods are unconventional, he stirs the already present spirit in the boys, showing the beauty (Q) inherent in art, literature and life and while doing so, does what the SQ of the establishment has never encouraged - think for yourselves, dare to be different and break through boudaries, use the education received as a foundation on which to build a rich and individual life - create what has not been created, think of what has not been thought, do not be restrained by what has gone before, do not conform for the sake of conforming, trust your instincts of what is the right way for you to live life. If you feel you have the soul of a lawyer, doctor or banker, so be it, they all provide for the quality of the society and for the individual with the calling, but to become a lawyer when you have a soul of a poet, is an extremely low quality choice, and it is the SQ values that would encourage that.
He is taking what is inherent in youth (and isn't youth, still not shackled by conformity, the greatest hope of DQ), and encouraging it to manifest.
He is teaching DQ!
Needless to say, the establishment, feeling threatened that their society will be thrown into chaos, dismisses him.
Please excuse me if I have gotten the meaning of MOQ wrong, I would love to be corrected if it is the case for although I feel the implications of MOQ, I may still be way off in my defenitions!
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