carpediem
CARPE DIEM AS A ROAD TO FREEDOM
Framed within the Greco-Roman civilization, Horace encourages us to live the present, not to waste the second of our clock, to surprise at every turn, to seize everything that is within our reach, to live the moment as if it were unique and unrepeatable, as if it were the last chance. The poet encourages us to do great things or at least imagine. And that is precisely what makes John Keating, Professor protagonist of The Dead Poets Society. In one scene of the film says, "Only when we dream we are free, always has been and always will be." Time passes, flees, and with it change the landscapes and customs but man's essence remains intact.
Carpe diem was the main aspect that developed the story because it makes an important change in the boys; they become more alert to what going on around them. They do not want to miss any opportunity that comes their way, their attitude changes because they start to reflect on what they want to do with their future.
On the other hand carpe diem influence the Keating pedagogy because it claims a different teaching where the students are not conditioned by a traditional education, it questions the harsh and rote practices of traditional schools. Keating becomes a teacher that transfers to students to a philosophy of life, a way of seeing and living. Through this philosophy can trigger concepts such as autonomy, right of free expression, freedom of thought, daily life, etc. We can also say that it teaches a sense of life, a sense that can only be addressed and accepted by those who live and no one else.
In the film the concept free expression is represented by the cave and poetry, the cave as a symbol of the primitive origins of man and space for freedom from the shackles of conventionalism; there we can see that civilization is the greatest enemy of creativity, makes individuals according to a common pattern.
"Tradition, discipline, honor and greatness," the pillars of behavior postulated Walton
Framed within the Greco-Roman civilization, Horace encourages us to live the present, not to waste the second of our clock, to surprise at every turn, to seize everything that is within our reach, to live the moment as if it were unique and unrepeatable, as if it were the last chance. The poet encourages us to do great things or at least imagine. And that is precisely what makes John Keating, Professor protagonist of The Dead Poets Society. In one scene of the film says, "Only when we dream we are free, always has been and always will be." Time passes, flees, and with it change the landscapes and customs but man's essence remains intact.
Carpe diem was the main aspect that developed the story because it makes an important change in the boys; they become more alert to what going on around them. They do not want to miss any opportunity that comes their way, their attitude changes because they start to reflect on what they want to do with their future.
On the other hand carpe diem influence the Keating pedagogy because it claims a different teaching where the students are not conditioned by a traditional education, it questions the harsh and rote practices of traditional schools. Keating becomes a teacher that transfers to students to a philosophy of life, a way of seeing and living. Through this philosophy can trigger concepts such as autonomy, right of free expression, freedom of thought, daily life, etc. We can also say that it teaches a sense of life, a sense that can only be addressed and accepted by those who live and no one else.
In the film the concept free expression is represented by the cave and poetry, the cave as a symbol of the primitive origins of man and space for freedom from the shackles of conventionalism; there we can see that civilization is the greatest enemy of creativity, makes individuals according to a common pattern.
"Tradition, discipline, honor and greatness," the pillars of behavior postulated Walton