Challenging Dead Poet Society’s Authority Dead Poet Society and Friere’s essay of the “Banking” concept of education has many authorities associated with each other. However Keating challenges these authorities. According to Freire’s essay Keating’s teachings were successful and challenged authority. Welton believed what Friere stats about the ‘Banking’ concept, “The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world”(319). Welton Academy was all about tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence. Welton Academy made it almost a crime for a student to exercise a critical political conscious. Freire states in the ‘banking’ concept of education, “knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing”(319). Welton Academy strongly believed that students should stick to the curriculum and to not have their own conscious. Every teacher stuck to this curriculum except Mr. Keating. During his very first class session Keating demonstrates he is not just there to teach Welton Academy’s curriculum. Keating wanted to show what students can do with knowledge of individualism in their everyday lives. The first class session is, indeed, not so much a lesson in English literature, but a wake-up call: The verbal form of the call is "Carpe Diem--seize the day!" Keating tells his students to take a look at Robert Herrick's famous lines Gather the rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, To-morrow will be dying.” “Why does the poet write these lines?" Keating asks, and he eventually answers himself: "Because we are food for worms, lads! Because we're only going to experience a limited number of springs, summers, and falls. One day, hard as it is to bel