Comment on Katherine's Post Dead Poet's Society Part One

I have to agree with you that the two teachers are similar in a lot of ways. They both tell jokes, they both have compassion for teaching and their students. the difference I see is that they each have a different goal they want to achieve from their teaching. The students in "Stand and Deliver" were themselves too much with no direction. The students in Dead Poets Society had too much direction to the point they could not be themselves or even think for themselves. I feel it can be just as harmful to a person growing up in either setting.