In Class Lab - Quote

1. Mr. Keating strived to impress upon his students the importance of trusting your own writing and creativity while still focusing on a traditional education. In a memorable scene from the film "Dead Poet Society" he states."We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for."

2, In his fond and joking interactions with his students, Mr. Keating shows that he truly cares about all interactions of his students lives.

3. According to John Taylor Gatto, a well known commentator on the educational system, "When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling." This clearly shows the difference between the educational success of a willing versus a resistant student.

4. In a video posted on on Ted(Technology, Entertainment, Design), Mr. Robinson discusses at length the failing state of the current American education, one mistake he mentions is the failure to understand that "Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status."

5. In one of his many saying that have withstood the test of time, Mark Twain remarks that , "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.". This is very similar to Mr.Keating's attitude in "Dead Poets Society" in that they both believe that the school system is too rigid to allow for true learning.




Works Cited:
- Kleinbaum, N. H., and Tom Schulman. Dead Poets Society: A Novel. New York: Bantam, 1989. Print.

- Gatto, John T. "You Can't Get an Education From School Books." Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education Conference. 03 Dec. 2013. Speech.

-Robinson, Ken. "Ken Robinson: How Schools Kill Creativity." TED: Ideas worth Spreading. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. <http://www.ted.com/talks
/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html>.

-Twain, Mark. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Dec. 2013.

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."