Dead Poet's Society

Dead Poet's Society is one of my all-time favorite movies. I love Robin Williams. I love that Wilson from the TV show House is a teenager in that movie. I love standing on top of tables and yelling, "O Captain, My Captain!" Not that I've ever really done that, but I sometimes dream about doing it. I had a class my freshman year of high school that was very similar to the experiences the students had in that movie. It was a very unconventional class, and grading was more based on participation and personal growth than it was on naming dates from history or spelling onomatopoeia correctly. Maybe it was because high schools in Washington State are so liberal and hippie-ish. But I had a lot of "free thinking" personal application classes. Then I got to college, and although my classes are great, they are nothing like the hippie-education I got in high school. All of them except one class I started going to 2 days ago. It's called adolescent development, and its under the Secondary Education Department. Its every Tuesday night from 4-8pm (in case you haven't calculated that, its FOUR HOURS LONG!!) So it is a BEAST. But it is so good. On our first day of class we stopped about an hour early to go on a "field trip". We walked a couple buildings north to the Education in Zion Exhibit located in the Joseph F. Smith Building. I had been up there maybe once... But never really got into it. As we gathered in the foyer of this exhibit, we were encircled around a small statue of Christ with a plaque that said, "Feed my lambs, feed my sheep." My professor then began to speak about the very few mentioned professions in the bible: money-changers, fishermen, carpenters... And teachers. Teaching is one of the only professions listed in the bible. And she then gave us the challenge that Christ gave us- "Feed my lambs, feed my sheep." Teaching is something so sacred, something that Christ himself did. He was a teacher. No matter what our emphasis, we are building up the Kingdom of God through the Education of God's children. I am going to be a teacher!! I am so excited to enlighten the minds of adolescents and help them progress and grow. I want to feed his lambs, and feed his sheep.