on. He wants each boy in his class to contribute a verse in life, meaning that every person is worth something and everything they do has an effect on others around them. Leave a mark on society in return for what society has left on them. In Mr. Keeting's class, life is seen as a battle full of casualties and armies of academics going toward poetry. He encourages his students to savor words and ideas and he encourages students to think for themselves. This belief leads to him forcing his students to rip out the introduction to the poetry text book enforcing his belief that learning is a thinking process that involves personal experiences and interaction more then just reading and memorizing the text. This would be and example of extrinsic motivation- acquiring the information in order to pass the test and obtain high grades. But Mr. Keeting saw learning as wanting to do it for themselves, to reach!
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