The students look around at one another, uncertain of what to do. Keating pokes his head back in the doorway, well come on. He gestures them to follow and the students, after some hesitation, grab their books and follow Keating out into the main entranceway. This shows us, the audience, a starting point of how Keating's life at the college will change many, and presents us with Keating's inspiring new teaching manner. Keating really encourages the student-teacher relationship to become more of a friendship than anything else by asking or you could even say, ordering them to call him "Oh Captain, My Captain"!.
Carpe diem was a phrase that Keating used to inspire his students and allowed them to get past areas of their life which became difficult and overall gave Neil Perry a excuse to leave the world. Carpe diem was first used at the beginning of the film during Keating's initial meet with his class. This expression was used extensively throughout the film, whenever one of the students did something that they wouldn't have normally done and it enables them to step out of their body and into a stronger and indestructible casing so that they can do anything. as we see later in the film. Knox Overstreet used this expression when he was following up a call to Chris Noel. She's gonna hate me. The Danburrys will hate me. My parents will kill me. All right, goddamn it. You're right. "Carpe diem." Even if it kills me. .
Keating's used soccer as a inspiration teaching medium that added a new and interesting wave to what already was fascinating. Now, devotees may argue that one sport or game is inherently better than another. For me, sport is actually a chance for us to have other human beings push us to excel. By hitting the soccer ball as they read out their poems, it releases some frustration or bad temperament that the boys might have, and by Keating allowing them to do this, it "wipes the slate clean" and once again inspires them to excel in what they do.