A few years ago, when I was a college student, our foreign teacher showed us this movie-The Dead Poet's Society. There are two Chinese translations, one is "Death Poet's Society" and the other is "Chunfeng Huayu". ". Personally, I think the latter is more in line with the content and theme of the film, while the former sounds like a thriller.
When I was a student, I watched this movie from the perspective of a student. At that time, I felt that a passionate teacher like Keating was really good. What's more commendable was that he could get along with the students, but at the same time he could give them admiration from the bottom of their hearts. Passion is the most important quality in teaching literature, especially when teaching poetry, because poetry itself is an expression of passion, because there is passion, there will be poetry.
But now, when I truly become a university teacher, looking back at this movie, it feels very different. Now when I go to the "Death Poetry Society" again, I have been quietly sighing in my heart: If I could be such a teacher, it would be great, and if I could make the class so vivid, how great would it be! But at the end, when I saw Neil commit suicide and Keating was expelled from school because of this, I couldn't help feeling sad. Especially in the last scene of the film, Keating took his things from the classroom, and when he was about to leave, many students bravely stood on the desk, chanting Whitman’s verse "Oh, Captain, My "Captain" said goodbye to him, the tears that moved me couldn't help but flowed out. I think that being a teacher is worth it, even if I leave, I should be content in my heart. However, quite a few students did not stand up to say goodbye to Keating who was about to leave, but turned their indifferent back towards his still warm eyes.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but think of myself. I have been a teacher for nearly a year. From the beginning of my ambition and passion, I am now discouraged and even tired of class. It’s really a kind of sorrow that cannot be exhausted.
Although I feel that many students like me, like my teaching methods, and like to talk to me privately like friends and respect me, I am a person with higher demands on myself. These are far from satisfying my sense of accomplishment. What can touch my heart is not those favorite and respectful gazes, but some indifferent and disapproving gazes. Many times, at the beginning of the class, I felt that I was in high spirits, but I felt very boring and frustrated when I was in class. My careful preparation did not receive a corresponding response. I felt that I was just singing a one-man show on the podium and acting by myself. , I appreciate it, and I really feel unspeakable frustration.
Of course, it’s hard to tell. If there are students who like you, there are bound to be students who don’t like you, just like the Keating teacher in the film. I understand this truth, but it will still be sad to meet students who are indifferent at all.
Sometimes it really feels that some students are hopeless, and they have given up themselves. So what use is the teacher's words? You want to be responsible to them and do your best to them, but some students still don't appreciate it, so what can you do? Besides, how big is the role of the teacher? Can a teacher really preach and teach karma to solve puzzles? Maybe it is not difficult to teach karma to solve puzzles, but it is difficult to preach again? What kind of thinking and what kind of world outlook should be instilled in the students to be correct and to be good for them? I really can’t even answer these questions myself.
Everyone says that teachers are a noble profession, and that teachers are engineers of the human soul. Because of this, teachers are also a very risky profession, because they are directed to the human soul. Perhaps this is an exaggeration, but it is true. Teachers must be responsible to students, but what will be the result of responsibility? Maybe you can really cultivate a large number of talents, peaches and plums are all over the world; maybe, you will also mislead people and lead them to a wrong path?
Like the Keating teacher in the film, the philosophy of life he conveyed to his students—"Grasp today and focus on the present"—must be suitable for all students? of course not. It can be said that Neil's suicide has nothing to do with him, because in the bottom of his heart, Neil's desire for the stage and passion for performance would not be awakened, and he would not be overwhelmed without the indoctrination of his thoughts. I think if he didn't meet Keating teacher, Neil would definitely be admitted to a prestigious university and become an excellent doctor under the arrangement and suppression of his father. It's just that his life will be a pool of stagnant water, and will not be rippled by the wind.
Of course, the theme of the film is to criticize the rigid teaching model, not to hold Keating responsible for Neil's suicide.
The spring breeze is turning rain, how many teachers can really play the role of spring breeze turning rain for students today?
Oh, it's so difficult to be a teacher, especially to be a good teacher!
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