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Essay Archive - Movie: Dead Poet's Society - The Dead Poet That Killed Himself
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 educat....
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