Your study of trigonometry...
requires absolute precision.
Anyone failing to turn in any homework assignment...
will be penalized one point off their final grade.
Let me urge you now not to test me on this point.
Hey, Spaz! Spaz!
Brain damage!
Well, come on!
- Let's go. - Let's go, guys.
11O Captain! My captain!11
Who knows where that comes from?
Anybody.
Not a clue?
lt's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln.
Now, in this class, you can either call me Mr. Keating...
or if you're slightly more daring O Captain, my Captain.
Now let me dispel a few rumors, so they don't fester into facts.
Yes, l, too, attended Hell-ton and have survived.
And, no, at that time l was not the mental giant you see before you.
l was the intellectual equivalent of a 98-pound weakling.
l would go to the beach, and people would kick copies of Byron in my face.
Now...
Mr. Pitts.
That's a rather unfortunate name. Mr. Pitts, where are you?
Mr. Pitts, will you open your hymnal to page 542?
Read the first stanza of the poem you find there.
- 11To The Virgins to Make Much of Time11? - Yes. That's the one.
Somewhat appropriate, isn't it?
11Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a-flying...
and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.''
Thank you, Mr. Pitts.
11Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.11
The Latin term for that sentiment is carpe diem.
Now who knows what that means?
Carpe diem. That's seize the day.
- Very good, Mr.-- - Meeks.
Meeks. Another unusual name.
Seize the day.
11Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.11
- Why does the writer use these lines? - Because he's in a hurry.
No! Ding!
Thank you for playing anyway.
Because we are food for worms, lads.
Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room...
is one day going to stop breathing...
turn cold, and die.
l would like you to step forward over here...
and peruse some of the faces from the past.
You've walked past them many times, but l don't think you've really looked at them.
They're not that different from you, are they?
Same haircuts...
full of hormones just like you.
lnvincible just like you feel.
The world is their oyster.
They believe they're destined for great things just like many of you.
Their eyes are full of hope just like you.
Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives...
even one iota of what they were capable?
Because you see, gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils.
But if you listen real close...
you can hear them whisper their legacy to you.
Go on, lean in. Listen.
Do you hear it?
Carpe.
Hear it?
Carpe.
Carpe diem.
Seize the day, boys.
Make your lives extraordinary.
- That was weird. - But different.
Spooky, if you ask me.
Think he'll test us on that stuff?
Oh, come on, Cameron, don't you get anything?
What? What?
Let's go, boys. Hustle up in here. That means you, Dalton.
requires absolute precision.
Anyone failing to turn in any homework assignment...
will be penalized one point off their final grade.
Let me urge you now not to test me on this point.
Hey, Spaz! Spaz!
Brain damage!
Well, come on!
- Let's go. - Let's go, guys.
11O Captain! My captain!11
Who knows where that comes from?
Anybody.
Not a clue?
lt's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln.
Now, in this class, you can either call me Mr. Keating...
or if you're slightly more daring O Captain, my Captain.
Now let me dispel a few rumors, so they don't fester into facts.
Yes, l, too, attended Hell-ton and have survived.
And, no, at that time l was not the mental giant you see before you.
l was the intellectual equivalent of a 98-pound weakling.
l would go to the beach, and people would kick copies of Byron in my face.
Now...
Mr. Pitts.
That's a rather unfortunate name. Mr. Pitts, where are you?
Mr. Pitts, will you open your hymnal to page 542?
Read the first stanza of the poem you find there.
- 11To The Virgins to Make Much of Time11? - Yes. That's the one.
Somewhat appropriate, isn't it?
11Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a-flying...
and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.''
Thank you, Mr. Pitts.
11Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.11
The Latin term for that sentiment is carpe diem.
Now who knows what that means?
Carpe diem. That's seize the day.
- Very good, Mr.-- - Meeks.
Meeks. Another unusual name.
Seize the day.
11Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.11
- Why does the writer use these lines? - Because he's in a hurry.
No! Ding!
Thank you for playing anyway.
Because we are food for worms, lads.
Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room...
is one day going to stop breathing...
turn cold, and die.
l would like you to step forward over here...
and peruse some of the faces from the past.
You've walked past them many times, but l don't think you've really looked at them.
They're not that different from you, are they?
Same haircuts...
full of hormones just like you.
lnvincible just like you feel.
The world is their oyster.
They believe they're destined for great things just like many of you.
Their eyes are full of hope just like you.
Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives...
even one iota of what they were capable?
Because you see, gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils.
But if you listen real close...
you can hear them whisper their legacy to you.
Go on, lean in. Listen.
Do you hear it?
Carpe.
Hear it?
Carpe.
Carpe diem.
Seize the day, boys.
Make your lives extraordinary.
- That was weird. - But different.
Spooky, if you ask me.
Think he'll test us on that stuff?
Oh, come on, Cameron, don't you get anything?
What? What?
Let's go, boys. Hustle up in here. That means you, Dalton.