Throughout the motion picture Dead Poet Society, starring Robin Williams as an English teacher, a group of young men begins to understand the experience of self-fulfillment in education. ... The second and most significant major quarrel in this movie occurs when the English teacher Mr. Keating, who teaches with free spirit, gets reprimanded by Mr. ... Keating believes that students should have free spirits, question authority, and learn only what is accurate, and useful in life. ... He also states that Neil would be at home studying chemistry if it weren't for Mr. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the article "I Just Wanna Be Average" (We Are America, Page 211), the author, Mike Rose goes on to say that his English teacher, Jack MacFarland, taught and approved him to be aroused motivation. ... Then, the teacher, who was my math class instructor and gave me motivation to study, hit his yardstick on my desk brought me back to the real world where subjects did not relate to my interest and dreamers are related to dummies. ... Learning how to think frees our dependency on others for knowledge. ... After that time, I could devote myself to study to go to high ranked university. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Whereas in Hectors Lessons the boys are free to learn in their own way and most of his lessons start of bizarrely. ... Hectors general studies lessons are totally out of the ordinary and not expected by a modern day audience to watch his lessons and the things that happen can see the comic side of it but it doesn't quite lessen the blow of some of the things that occur. ... Hector: English it's banned. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sir Ken Robinson is an English author, speaker and committed supporter of education and the arts. He has been writing educational books since 1977 and contributes very respected texts in the study of art education. ... The constraints and benchmarks are lifted, and the 'less-able' or creative students are in a sense left free of boundaries, but is the creative spark already lost because it had never been explored? ... This is especially worrying for students studying teaching. ... I think it would be relevant to students studying arts and education, such as myself, because many stud...

• Word Count: 943
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

According to authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman of "The Creativity Crisis" , a dilemma that has risen in recent studies is that the public's "creativity quotient" has steadily crept downward since 1990. ... The aspects of creativity must be applied in studies not taught. ... Math can provide an intellectual creativity by developing a quirky tune to remember that formula you just learned or even in English by hosting poem readings once a week to construct a more creative mind. ... Most students view this class as an extended free period. ...

• Word Count: 1024
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• Grade Level: High School