difference between the schools

The two high schools in the movies that we watched, "Stand and Deliver" and "Dead Poets Society" are very different and yet also similar. Each school intends to create a certain type of student, they set them in classrooms and feed information to them in order to get the students to pass an exam and move on to the next class and pass the next exam.....on and on and on an endless procedure until graduation and then they can move on to college and do the same thing. Receive information and then regurgitate it back onto an exam or test and prove you were paying attention in your class. Mr. Escalante and Mr. Keating intended to break this vicious cycle. They wanted their students to break out of the places in which society put them and become more than what they thought they could. Mr. Escalante's school was very poor and had little funding, the education there was lacking and students received minimal encouragement or assistance. Mr. Escalante wanted his students to become more than they had been told they could, he wanted them to pass the AP exam and have a better opportunity for college than they had previously been given. Mr. Keating wanted his students to become more than they had been told they could become in a different way than Mr. Escalante. Mr. Keating wanted his students to break away from the exams and constant studying just for college preparation, he want his students to be able to think for themselves and become what ever it is they desired, not what they had been told they had to be, by their parents and educators. the students of Welton had so many opportunities already, the school was prestigious and wealthy, these kids could be anything they wanted, they didn't all have to be stuck in an endless cycle of doctors and lawyers and such. They should learn to think for themselves and decide their own future, this was Mr. Keating's belief and he was determined to help his students break free and become their own person.