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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Extended Reading
  • Jovanny 2022-03-22 09:01:02

    I think of political teachers in colleges, who never teach, but only teach us to watch movies, read novels, learn philosophy, write poetry and write articles, and show us movies on weekends. He also teaches the elective course Western Philosophy History. How interesting are those philosophies taught. Think about it if you have such a teacher in your life, you will be lucky

  • Keely 2022-03-24 09:01:03

    When I saw someone starting to stand on the table, I was so excited. Living and thinking independently and freely is better than anything else.

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."