Quality for younger students is more about personalizing their education. Why should Johnny learn the properties of magnets when he's really interested in animal classification? Because that's what all the other kids his age in town are learning? But if he's thinking about animals while you're trying to teach him about magnets, he won't remember much of it anyway. And chances are, he will become interested in magnets at some point in time.
For older students - the more self-motivated "high school" level students, Quality, not Conformity comes more in the form of "This is good, but I think you can do better." (And they will be self-motivated if allowed to follow their interests.)
For both younger and older students, this is about encouraging them to become their best selves.
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