Mr. Escalante and Mr. Keating

From first glance Mr.Escalante and Mr.Keating seemed to have nothing in common besides the fact that they are both teachers. They teach in completely different settings to completely different kids. Mr. Escalante is teaching kids that don't have drive to be in school and no faith put in them by there parents. Mr. Keating is teaching kids who have all the expectations in the world of them by their parents, and are strictly about school and getting good grades. These are completely different settings to teach kids in and you would think that they would not bring out similarities in the teachers, but they do. Each teacher shows an enormous amount of compassion for the kids and a desire to help them accomplish something important. Mr. Escalante is focused on pushing the kids to achieve there full potential and gain college credit by passing an AP Calculus class. Mr. Keating is striving for almost the exact opposite. The kids in his private school that he is teaching are all academics, no fun. He strives to put excitement, passion, and creative ambition back in there life through poetry. He wants to be able to teach the kids to be creative along with there academic achievements. He uses many uses of outgoing teaching to extract the creativity from his students. In one scene he picks on his shy student and tells him to recite a poem that he didn't do. He then proceeds to make him stand in front of the class and prompts the creativity out of him into a deep poem. Mr. Escalante uses similar techniques that are shown when he calls on one student in his class that feels like he is the least intelligent and helps him solve the problem in front of the class using sarcasm and unique teaching methods. Both teachers are unique and similar in there own ways, and both are incredible teachers.