How Mr Escalante and Mr. Keating are different and/or Similar

Mr. Escalante taught at Garfield High School in “Stand and Deliver” the kids were poor and angry. He seemed to not be phased by the violence and things he had to deal with on a regular basis. His house was in the same poor town as the school. So by these facts I can assume that Mr. Escalante had a similar upbringing. This may be why he wanted to help the students in the first place. Mr. Keating In “Dead Poets Society” had gone to Welton Academy when he was a kid, so he knows the way the school works and the manner of the other teachers there. So he understands the other students and what frustrations they might have and can relate to them. So both of the teachers grew up the same way the students they are teaching are growing up now. But the way each of them grew up was very different. Both of the teachers are looked at as different by the other teachers for their teaching style. Mr. Escalante and Mr. Keating both go a little overboard with their teaching methods. One could say that some of the things they say and do are a little inappropriate and it’s not something you would normally see another teacher at their school do. Mr. Escalante will say things like “I’m going to break your neck like a toothpick if you don’t answer this question” and Mr. Keating has a kid who didn’t do his assignment go up to the front of the class and describe a picture of a man with his eyes closed until he gets the student to open up and not be afraid to tap into his “inner poet;” and have them rip sections he doesn’t like out of their books. All in all, both of the teachers have some differences, but at the end of the day they are both teachers that care about their students with nothing but good intentions for them and that makes them even more the same.