Teaching and Learning: A Comparison of John Keating and Jaime Escalante

First ofall, John Keating is an English teacher of the movie “Dead Poets Society” who inspires his students to overcome their reluctance to make change in their lives and stairs up their interest in poetry and literature. It is the same thing that Jaime Escalante a math teacher of the movie “Stand and Deliver” makes. However, he is teaching calculus program rivaled by only handful of exclusive academies. One of the methods of Mr. Keating is doing things that students feel open. For example, in a part of the movie Mr. Keating takes a book and finds the idea of such mathematical literary criticism ridiculous. Therefore, he suggests his students to rip the introductory essay out of the text books. In addition, Mr. Escalante is very interesting and makes students think. For example, in a part of the movie he says to his students that repeat, “A negative times a negative equals a positive” then he asks, “Why.”
            From the beginning to the end of the movie, Mr. Keating has a good relationship with his students because they always have a good behavior. However, Mr. Escalante just at the end has a good relationship with his students. As many teachers have problems with their students’ families, Mr. Escalante has a problem with one of his students’ father who does not want that his daughter studies any more in the school. Additionally, Mr. Keating has almost the same problem with a father who does not want that his son wastes his time learning English Literature. A big problem that they have in common is that the other teachers in the school do not want the way how they teach. I think that an ideal teacher must give to the students the skills of learning and the love of it.