Paulo Friere’s essay “The ‘Banking’ concept of education” is a short writing that explains the two types of education concepts that exist according to Friere. In the Film “Dead Poet Society”, both of these concepts are shows through many examples from the school’s old methods of a banking concept, to Mr Keating’s, played by Robin Williams, demonstration of a “problem-poser”. Throughout the course of the Film we are exposed to both methods of education, and their impact on the lives of the students at Welton Academy. Dead Poets Society explores the banking concept of education taught from the traditional educators present at the prep school, and the change of the students as John Keating bring to their world a non-traditional way of teaching at Welton through a more open method of teaching and learning from each other, Frier’s Problem-poser method of education.
Dead Poet’s Society begins with the introduction of a new schoolyear at Welton Academy. The first scene presents an embodiment of one of the key banking concept ideas, “the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing” (Friere P.2?) when there is the passing of the flame of the candles, described as the ‘Light of knowledge” which is a Gift of those with knowledge, to those
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The first view of the classroom has Keating lead the students out of the classroom and into the corridor. This is where the introduction of the Films key focus points is introduced. Carpe Diem, Seize the day, a short phrase that expresses the primary theme of Dead Poets Society. This is the first time in the film we witness Problem Posing at Welton and the difference in philosophy of Mr. Keating from the other teachers, and the parents of the students. John Keating continues his focus on the Problem Posing method when we go back to his classroom and the introduction of there textbook is