The Dead Poets Society-Initial Response.
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The Dead Poets Society-Initial Response Louis Li Professor Keating is a great teacher. He teaches because he loves to teach. Not only does he teach his students literature, but he also teaches them about life. Professor Keating challenges them to question conventional views by standing on their desks and ripping their textbooks. The story takes time at 1959, I think this setting is important because it is the time of industrial revoluntion. The society needs high educated people in terms of knowledge and technology. And the students in the movie are just the slaves of machinaries. After watching this film, it leaves me feeling kind of sad and thinking about our society.I like the teacher's ideas because I do not want to be bonded to platitude of our society; accept things without questioning. In order for our society to progress we have to have new ideas. It is Galileo who breaks the...

