Dead Poets Society
In 1959, the Welton Academy is a somewhat old-fashioned but well-respected prep school where education is understood to be a rigorous academic learning program combined with the shaping of the students’ characters according to explicitly traditionalist ideals. The film begins with a processional march of the students into the main auditorium of the school, where teachers and parents are awaiting the address of the headmaster Mr. Nolan (Norman Lloyd), who inaugurates the new school year by reminding everyone of the high standards of the institution, and the school’s high success rate in sending its graduates to Ivy League universities. Students carry banners on which are embroidered the “four pillars” of Welton’s pedagogical program: Tradition, Honor, Discipline, and Excellence.
I never wanted to become a teacher. Maybe because I would have been too hard on the students, maybe because I am afraid… I don’t know. I taught English, though, and I know that I do just everything for them to learn, to know something. Well, this is another Robin Williams movie (it is one of my favourites since Mrs. Doubtfire:). I always appreciated smart teachers, those who have talent to teach. I hard of teachers at the University who have their classes crowded with studends. Why? Because they have something to offer, they are endowed with the talent of drowing people to them to listen. Profesor Keting is one of those teachers. At first you are confused, puzzeled of his sytle when he asks to wrap the first page of their book. He makes you dream, he makes you love poetry, literature, he makes you think and create. I never agreed with those given commentaries. I hated them and because I wasn’t willing to learn them by heart, I was punished. I don’t mind.
Some says only saints and artists are never understood. I laughed, picturing myself an artist or a saint. I know I’m not either one, though, but I know the feeling of not being understood. To beak the curriculum and to do it your way. It is a big risk to be a talented teacher, not a narrow minded and to use unorthodox methods in teaching. The risk is to have the same fate as profesor Keating. To be kiked out of school. It is a must see movie!
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