The time is 1959, the hundredth anniversary of the founding of Welton Academy. Welton is a sort of Ivy League training school. The boys of Welton Academy are dutiful sons, their lives arranged by Mom and Dad like connecting dots. They need only move assuredly from point A, Welton, to point B, Harvard or Oxford, to point C, a prestigious law firm/corporation/band. However, that does not stop their new English teacher from encouraging them …showed first 75 words of 2710 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2710 total…cannot imagine a better book on how an inspired teacher's mind works. You know at once, why his students would be swept along by his words, he is thinking on his feet, getting high on his thoughts. In addition, that is what Keating is doing: rhythms reveal the free workings of his mind. If only "Dead Poets Society" got into the subject of what Keating gives to teaching and what it gives back to him!