"Carpe Diem," is one of the many lessons taught by Mr. Keating in Dead Poets Society by Peter Weir. A new English teacher teaches a group of young men some important life lessons. Mr. Keating inspires his students through his love of poetry and shows them that being and individual is important, sometimes you just need a different outlook, and mostly that in order to get the most out of life and the experiences in it you have to seize the day.
The boys at Welton Academy go from class to class with the idea that what is important in life is the job you have and the goal to become a doctor or lawyer. It isn't until Mr. Keating shows them his side and idea of what learning is that they realize it is alright to be an individual. The way he teaches his class and his methods go against everything they are used to. Mr. Keating has a very different way of teaching poetry and proves him self as an individual in the school. He shows the boys that it is encouraged to be different and pursue what you love. His student Neil Perry especially takes to Mr. Keating and goes against his father to preform in the play "A Mid Summer Nights Dream." Mr. Keating encourages Neil to tell his father about his passion for theater and follow his true dreams becoming and individual.
When the boys have trouble understanding Mr. Keating he stands on his desk and exclaims that sometimes you just need a different view of things, he then has each of his students come and stand on his desk and look. The way Mr. Keating teaches his class is very different from any other class of theirs, because of his outlook on the education system. All of his students really start to understand him as he shows them where his point of view comes from. This helps a lot of the boys find themselves and what they really want. Mr. Keating has all the boys rip out the text books definition of poetry because he feels they should all enjoy it and not try and learn it in the same concept as math or physics. He has a different view of poetry and once his students learn to see things the same as him they all really start to have fun and be creative with writing and understanding poetry.
In his very first class teaching at Welton Academy Mr. Keating gives the boys a lecture about how they must seize the day before it is too late. He encourages them to do what they truly want to. A group of students who especially take to him create the "Dead Poets Society" just as Mr. Keating and his friends had in their days at the academy. He inspires them and brings passion to what they do. Neil Perry followed carpe diem and preformed in the play when he knew his father would be upset. The boys all learn and do things that they most likely wouldn't have imagined they could really do. They learn to inspire each other and push each other to "seize the day."
Mr. Keating truly proved himself to be an inspiring role model of an educator as he taught his students many life lessons. He set an example of himself and showed them that being an individual is important which is why he was able to inspire them in such a different way. He also told them that sometimes you just need a different outlook on something, and that's what he gave them. All his students changed the way they look and English class and their education. Although he taught them a lot the lesson he showed them the most was carpe diem. They all learned how to make the most out of everything while they still can, which is what Mr. Keating did during his short period of time at Welton Academy. The lessons taught in the movie were all strong themes, though these seemed to stand out the most as all the characters learned them.
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