? The picture is from the movie "Dead Poets Society". Would you think it is a horror movie based on the name? Or a suspense movie? In fact, this is a film about the collision between traditional education and new ideas in the United States in the 1960s.
? The 100th anniversary celebration of Wilton Noble School was held grandly. At the celebration, the principal proudly reviewed the school's history and believed that these honors were due to the school's motto of "Tradition, Honor, Discipline, and Excellence." The school has strict work and rest time and class schedules. Students' spare time activities include participating in various study groups. Each child is carefully selected. Todd, the monitor, aims to become the school's outstanding student representative and Neil's father like his brother. I hope he becomes a doctor. On the surface, entering this school means success and a bright future. Every student should be high-spirited. But in fact, students privately ridicule the school motto as "imitation, horror, decadence, and filth," call the school "hell," and believe that the main task in school is to graduate alive. There were several clips in the movie that impressed me deeply. First, Neil wanted to participate in the school editorial club activities, but his father refused because he had too many activities and would affect his studies. Neil wanted to fight for it, but finally gave in when his father asked, "Do you know how much effort I have put in to get you into this school? Do you know that your success is very important to your mother?" The second scene is that the preface of the textbook uses mathematical x-axis and y-axis analysis of poetry, and the students are subconsciously taking notes while the teacher is explaining. The traditional dogmatic education turned these students into learning machines until the arrival of Teacher Keating. Teacher Keating also graduated from this school, but in his first class, he asked the students to tear out the preface of the textbook, because poetry should be experienced with the heart, not calculated with mathematical formulas. He told the students to seize the day and tell Students should find their own path and direction, and tell students to be their own masters rather than slaves of life... Under his influence, students' inner self-awareness began to awaken, and they restarted the Dead Poets Society once established by keating teachers. Reciting poetry in a dark cave, Todd began to gradually get rid of his brother's influence, and Neil began to fight for his favorite drama roles. If the movie ends here, it will be a happy ending. But as it turned out, Neil's father was furious that his son had participated in a drama performance privately against his will, and decided to send his son to a military school. Neil shot himself late at night when his resistance failed, and the school launched an investigation to calm the incident. , fired Teacher Keating, and traditional education regained dominance. But at the end of the film, when some students stand on the table and say ‘O, Captain, my captain’ to Teacher Keating, it means that the students’ inner self-awareness has awakened.
? Blindly emphasizing freedom and self is not necessarily a good thing. Philosophy also says that freedom is relative, rules are absolute, freedom within rules, and there is never absolute freedom. But this does not mean that we should emphasize absolute authority and stifle students' self-awareness. It is true that students' limited knowledge and lack of social experience will cause them to make wrong judgments. In this process, we need our guidance and the constraints of rules and regulations. But students are also independent individuals with their own thoughts. Why should we plan their paths and restrict their thoughts in the name of good for them? In the end, is it really for their own good or for the adults? Why can't we let them choose their own path under the right guidance? As long as this path does not violate laws and regulations, does not violate social ethics, as long as it is beneficial to yourself and society, as long as it is your own choice and you are willing to bear all the consequences it brings, even if it is not "good" in the traditional sense What's wrong with roads? As Robert Frost said in his poem The Road not Taken, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has been the path that has shaped my life.”
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