that boy there, see me after lunch.
take a power train in two! three! keep your eyes in the boat!
sit.
in this week of welton's honor there appeared a profane and unauthorized article. rather than spend my valuable time ferreting out the guilty persons -- and let me assure you i will find them - - i'm asking any and all students who knows anything about this article to make themselves known here and now. whoever the guilty persons are, this is your only chance to avoid expulsion from this school.
wipe that smirk off your face. if you think, mr. dalton, that you're the first to try to get thrown out of this school, think again. others have had similar notions and have failed just as surely as you will fail. assume the position.
count aloud, mr. dalton.
what is this dead poets society? i want names.
excuse me. may we have a word, mr. keating?
this was my first classroom, john. did you know that? my first desk.
english. oh, long before your time. it was hard giving it up, i can tell you. i'm hearing rumors, john, about some unorthodox teaching methods in your classroom. i'm not saying they've anything to do with the dalton boy's outburst. but i don't think i have to warn you boys his age are very impressionable.
what was going on in the courtyard the other day?
yeah. boys marching, clapping in unison.
well, john, the curriculum here is set. it's proven it works. if you question, what's to prevent them from doing the same?
at these boys' ages? not on your life! tradition, john. discipline. prepare them for college, and the rest will take care of itself.
the death of neil perry is a tragedy. he was a fine student. one of welton's best. and he will be missed. we've contacted each of your parents to explain the situation. naturally, they're all quite concerned. at the request of neil's family, i intend to conduct a thorough inquiry into this matter. your complete cooperation is expected.
have a seat, mr. anderson.
mr. anderson, i think we've pretty well put together what's happened here. you do admit to being a part of this dead poets society?
i have here a detailed description of what occurred at your meetings. it describes how your teacher, mr. keating, encouraged you boys to organize this club and to use it as a source of inspiration for reckless and self- indulgent behavior. it describes how mr. keating, both in and out of the classroom, encouraged neil perry to follow his obsession with acting when he knew all along it was against the explicit order of neil's parents. it was mr. keating's blatant abuse of his position as teacher that led directly to neil perry's death.
read that document carefully, todd. very carefully.
if you've nothing to add or amend, sign it.
sit.
i'll be teaching this class through exams. we'll find a permanent english teacher during the break. who will tell me where you are in the pritchard textbook?
mr. anderson?
i can't hear you, mr. anderson.
kindly inform me, mr. cameron.
what about the realists?
all right, then, we'll start over. what is poetry?
come.
get them now, mr. keating.
gentlemen, turn to page 21 of the introduction. mr. cameron, read aloud the excellent essay by dr. pritchard on "understanding poetry."
well, borrow somebody else's book.
what do you mean, they're all ripped out?
never mind.
read!
quiet, mr. anderson.
leave, mr. keating.
sit down, mr. anderson!
one more outburst from you or anyone else, and you're out of this school! leave, mr. keating.
i said leave, mr. keating.
sit down, mr. anderson!
do you hear me? sit down! sit down! this is your final warning, anderson. how dare you? do you hear me?
mr. overstreet, i warn you! sit down!
sit down! sit down. all of you. i want you seated. sit down. leave, mr. keating.
all of you, down. i want you seated. do you hear me?
sit down!