LIBA 202- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Liberal Arts
• Course: LIBA 202
• Professor: Fernando Nunez- Mietz

Document Summary

Education focused on the past (or a continuity with the past); education = link between generations. Chips: as a traditionalist, he is the minority; liberal majority. Film emphasized fundamental role of education = connecting to your past. Chips pays respect to his german friend killed in action: ethos of a gentleman: a way of conducting yourself; chips wants to teach this. Paternal relationship between chips and the boys (this eliminates any necessary role for women) There is an argument that this model of education could work today, though it needs to be modified. Dead poets society: candle lighting opening ceremony: light of knowledge, passed on through generations, ethos: tradition, honor, discipline, excellence (this is the worldview of the school, mores = customs. Old values are not bad, but they must be reinterpreted; the goal has changed (it is not to feel connected to a century-old tradition, but to reinforce that education is for you a mediation must be found)