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Movie: Dead Poet's Society - The Dead Poet That Killed HimselfThe movie Dead Poet's Society raises an interesting question: When educating teen-agers, is it better to use the school's po

Movie: Dead Poet's Society - The Dead Poet That Killed Himself

The movie Dead Poet's Society raises an interesting

question: When

educating teen-agers, is it better to use the school's policy of Tradition,

Honor, Discipline, and Excellence or Mr Keating's philosophy of carpe diam

(seize the day)? Mr Keating believed that people should "suck the marrow out of

life" and live like a free thinking person even at the young age

of seventeen

Centuries of teaching experience prove Mr Keating is wrong and that tradition

and discipline are the correct methods of educating

Our fledgling nation of only 200 years is a mental midget

in this world

Why is it that we are 17th in the world in education Is it that

we are stupid?

No, it is that we have diverged from the old world teaching

methods of Europe

and Asia Japan is third is the world in education The reason is simple

Although they manufacture most of the world's calculators, not one is used in

the classroom One really begins to understand math when taught

by route

memorization and physical punishment for incorrect answers

Anyone who has been

"rapped on the knuckles" by a nun with a ruler can attest to this fact

The one thing that a student needs in life is structure Without this,

he or she cannot function in a school environment When a bell rings, you must

go to class When a teacher assigns homework, you do it No

questions asked No

individual thought The only marrow that should be sucked out of

a students life

is that of education That, after all, is why they are in school

To learn and

no other reason

In the end, it should be noted that although Mr

Keating's teaching

philosophy was debunked, he made one good point Neil should have spoken to his

parents Neil's case is a perfect example of a mind not ready for independent

thought A mind without discipline His parents tried to give him direction and

a better life than they had Neil rewarded them by killing

himself The author

of this essay has no sympathy for Mr Keating, the man whose teaching inspired a

cowardly act of suicide