Education is the imparting and acquiring of knowledge and for that, there are teachers. I think a good teacher is able to teach students and make them interested in whatever the teacher is teaching. Because of that, Mr. Keating, to me, is not only a good teacher, but an excellent teacher.

In the school where Todd and Neil go, they believe that a way to produce a good student who is intelligent and disciplined is through strict rules and punishing. Both Neil's dad and Mr. Nolan think this is the way to go. Mr. Keating has very different ideas than those. Mr. Keating taught his students poetry and at first, the students were not too interested but once Keating really got into it, they began to like it which is something that is hard for a teacher to do. In their first class of poetry, they ripped out...