Answer to Kevin Dettmar's review

Dear Editor
About 2 years ago you wrote a review of a film "Dead Poets Society". Your attitude was very negative,  you criticized almost every aspect of the movie. I think that some of your arguments are good and you truly considered them and some of them seems very biased and for me you invented them only to make your review more critical and controversial.
I think that the image of the teacher in this film is misleading as well becouse obviously if all teachers are like Mr Keating we won't learn anything like math or history.
Also I agree with you that Mr Keating is a Lost Boy. On some level he tries to make his students the same as he is. He doesn't accept the fact that these boys can be not ready for mature life and to think for themselves.
On the other hand I disagree with your argument that it is bad that Mr Keating teach his students to "feel" the poem and not to understand it. Maybe I'm wrong but isn't "feeling" the poem the reason for what somebody wrote it?
Likewise I don't agree with you that Mr Keating didn't teach his students freedom and to think for themselves. It is true that he showed them his point of view but his point was to show them that there is always another way to think. I think that the allusion to recreate Dead Poets Society was the way to show them freedom and to find their points of view about poems and life.
Your last argument was that Mr Keating eventually didn't teach his students nothing about English. I agree as well as I disagree with this. In fact he didn't teach them anything about understanding of poems or things that they will need at college but his lessons about freedom, other points of view, and "feeling" the poems can't be called "nothing".
Yours sincerely
Reader

House s01e06 "The Socratic Method"

This post I would like to start from phrase I found interesting becouse whole plot of this week episode is based on it. "Socratic Method" is a form of dialogue in which interlocutors are asking and answering questions to find if their theory is true or false. In this episode House is trying to treat a woman with schizophrenia from the couse of the clot. Becouse there can be plenty of reasons of the clot each member of House's team has his own theory and using Socratic Method they are trying to figure out which one is the best. The rummy thing in this episode is the fact that House refused to say that he took this case only becouse of schizophrenia but eventually when he treated his patient from psychical and mental disease he found out that for him the woman is no longer interesting.

House M. D. s01e05 "Damned if you do"

This case was about a nun who came to clinic becouse of chemical burns on her hands. House gave her an injection of a anti-allergic medicine but she got much worse a couple of minutes later. Cuddy -  the head of the hospital assumed that it was House's fault become he gave the nun too high dose of the drug. House of course didn't belive that he could made a mistake. Eventually he found out that the nun has been allergic to a copper and she got sick because of the copper cross inside of her which was form of birth control in '80.
Whole episode is connected to faith. House obviously doesn't believe in God and divine judgments, his friend Wilson is jewish, 2 people of his team are unbelieving and the third one is a christian. Most of them concluded that in the case of health it is better to trust House than a God.

Phrase (2 this time becouse both of them I found interesting equally):
1) "Hippocratic oath" - oath that ancient doctors made. It was a basis of today's medical ethics.
2) "Damned if you do.  Damned if you don't." - in a simple words - "You are screwed either way"

House M. D. s01e04 "Maternity"

This episode of House M. D. was more serious than others. This time the patients were 6 infants who got sick simultaneously about 72 hours after beeing born. House discovered that there was infection in the hospital which was weird becouse infants were on the different floors so nobody knew what could be the reason. The infants were given 2 types of medicines for most common baby diseases but after a couple of hours turned out that one medicine was helping slightly however the other one made the kidney failure. There was no clue which medicine is good and which is bad so House made a hard decision to discontinue one of 2 medicines for 2 babies, different for each one. Only he was able to decided to do that becouse everybody knew that one infant would die and it did. The rest of babies got well soon after this incident. 2 members of the House team had some hard time during this case becouse they must inform parents about their baby's death.
Phrase: "needle in the haystack" - this one suprised me becouse I didn't know that there is equivalent of this proverb in english.

Is Mr Keating a good teacher?

Mr Keating is an english teacher in the school in film "Dead Poets Society". For me the answer for that question is quite clear. I think that he is great teacher but he also makes mistakes. He teaches in an unconventional way. His main point is to teach his students how to think for themselves, to be independent, to give them some freedom and to not be afraid of doing what they wanted, in their lifes to do. In that times his teaching method was surely controversial especially in good traditional school where where discipline was very common and expected. As a graduate he experienced it by himself. He encouraged his students to read and understand the true meaning of poetry and becouse of that they started to read and write poems on their own. His lessons made his students to overcome their fears like Todd Anderson's fear of speaking in public and shyness and Neil Perry's fear of strict parents. He made a mistake by thinking that all of his students are smart enough to understand his lessons and to not consider them as harmful. Becouse of misunderstanding headteacher started to thought that he encourage students to break rules. On the other hand the scene when half of the students stood on their desks in expression of respect and gratitude shows that his time and effort were not wasted.  To sum up I think that he is good at teaching but his method outdid his era.

House M. D. s01e03 "Occam's razor"

In this episode House took the case of a teenager who had got sick and had several symptoms that together didn't fit to any disease. House decided to give patient some medicines for casual diseases but obviously (just like in all episodes of entire 6 seasons)  they only caused more trouble. Eventually House got the idea while he was arguing with Wilson about his attitude towards patients. Maybe he looks like a pearson who doesn't care about other people but in fact he just doesn't show his feelings to don't get distracted.
Phrase I enjoyed: same as the title - "Occam's razor" also known as "law of parsimony". It's a problem-solving principle which says that we should choose the  most simple theory with the fewest assumptions.