O, captain, my captain

Tabitha 2022-04-19 09:01:02

You are here
because life and the individual exist,
because the great drama goes on,
because you can dedicate a poem.
Because the great drama goes on,
because you can dedicate a poem.

Whitman's poem

reminds me of mine a university teacher.
I was expelled from the school because I was more aggressive in teaching us in freshman year.
Objectively speaking, his method is indeed debatable. He himself has some problems.
However, the academy's attack on teachers in the name of different academic ideas is indeed a step backwards.

Teacher Keating cannot be produced under our educational system.
It has long been strictly guarded against being killed in an infancy.
Although Keating also failed in reality, he changed several children.
Maybe this is the difference between the two cultures.

Reminiscent of the recent performances of thousands of people and the advertisements that can be seen everywhere by adidas, the respect and tolerance of individual values ​​in the West is what we lack most.
Such a culture is uncreative and hopeless.

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Dead Poets Society quotes

  • John Keating: Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out!

  • John Keating: Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go,

    [imitating a goat]

    John Keating: "that's baaaaad." Robert Frost said, "Two roads diverged in the wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."