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How do I like unusual methods of teaching?

The movie «Dead Poets Society» is about an inspirational, intelligent, and well-read English teacher, Keating, and his students and about the great affection students had to this teacher at the end of a course in poetry. He taught them with the help of such methods as standing on their desks, ripping up some pages from their books and imitating Marlon Brando and John Wayne declaiming Shakespeare. Having read about «Dead Poets Society», a society of poetry admirers that was founded by Keating when he was an undergraduate students were so impressed and inspired that made the same society.
Of course Keating’s colleagues couldn’t value such his behavior and the brilliant teacher was dismissed by the school administration. More over one of his students killed himself because of a conflict with his father who forbade him to go onstage and it makes Keating the scapegoat for this suicide. To protest his dismissal students stood on their desks.
I found the whole scene utterly false, as the movie itself. I felt like I was wasting my time during the movie, because I had seen this artificial plot about authoritarian older people and good kids a hundred times before. There was nothing new for me, young peers were full of neurotic complexes and imaginary problems and Robin Williams played good and honest guy with the kindest eyes as usual.
That’s why it’s difficult for me to talk seriously about unusual methods of teaching. But anyway of course it would be great if at least a half of the teachers were like this Mr. Keating i.e. unconventional and rather brave to resist the opinion of society. To be a friend to the entire class is very important too but no one should forget about system of seniority otherwise pupils wouldn’t respect the teacher. A good teacher must give any student a say and give an opportunity to express himself/herself. Banging on about some subject is the worst way to win students’ favor and tune them on working mood.

 



"Peter Weir's film makes much noise about poetry, and there are brief quotations from Tennyson, Herrick, Whitman and even Vachel Lindsay, as well as a brave excursion into prose that takes us as far as Thoreau's Walden. None of these writers are studied, however, in a spirit that would lend respect to their language; they're simply plundered for slogans to exort the students toward more personal freedom. At the end of a great teacher's course in poetry, the students would love poetry; at the end of this teacher's semester, all they really love is the teacher.

The movie stars Marlon Brando and A Separate Peace" and other stories in which the good die young and the old simmer in their neurotic and hateful repressions. The key conflict in the movie is between Neil (Kurtwood Smith), who orders his son to become a doctor and forbids him to go onstage. The father is a strict, unyielding