Dead Poets Society Lessons

Watching a movie in class is what every high school student wants. Most people think movies in class are a waste of time and students could be learning a lot more material if teachers did not show movies. Movies are actually a great way to teach students valuable lessons and get them to come to school. Movies have the ability to teach any lesson. They can teach about respect, hard work or many other things. Movies also have the ability to bring people together and in this case bring kids to school. The Dead Poets Society directed by Peter Weir has the abilities to teach great lessons and allow them to learn about the past. The Dead Poets Society can teach every student that watches the film a great lesson. One of many lessons they can teach
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived” (Dead Poets Society 1989). This lesson is great because it teaches kids to live life to the fullest. It also teaches them to be themselves and do what they want because you only live once and there is no going back in time to change a person’s decisions. Some people may say that kids can learn this lesson from their teachers in a one minute talk, but this is not true. This is because a lot of students do not listen to their teacher and the things he or she says, but all kids listen to movies and what they have to say. This lessons ties to the next example which is a saying. The saying was first said by Mr. Keating, but it was sayed multiple times by many different characters. The saying is “Carpe diem” (Dead Poets Society). As explained in the movie the saying means to live life to the fullest in the present and don’t think of what will happen in the future. This is very important for high school students to learn because it teaches them to not worry about what colleges they
Learning about the past is very important because it allows students to compare to modern day to compare the differences. In the film Dead Poets Society a character by the name of Charlie Dalton decides to make a prank call for the head of Welton academy. Charlie said it was a call from God. This prank did not go over very well with the head of Welton academy. Charlie was taken out right away and was spanked with a wooden paddle. The wooden paddle is a part of history that high school students should learn about. It will teach the students about the major differences between school punishments in the past and the present. The grading was also different in the past. Towards the beginning of Dead Poets Society we are meeting all of the teachers and one of them talks about the grading. The teacher says that each late homework assignment will drop the overall grade of the student one letter. This is another key thing from the past that students need to learn. They need to learn how hard it was to get an A in a class so they stop complaining how hard it is now. Some people may say that it was so hard to get an A for the kids in the movie a Dead poets society because it was the top prep school in the nation. This is wrong because for most schools the lowest possible percentage you could get and still get an A was an around a ninety three percent. Learning about the past is very important and movies are a