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