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Jaime Escalante

Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutierrez (December 31, 1930 – March 30, 2010) was a Bolivian educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School, East Los Angeles, California. Escalante was the subject of the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, in which he is portrayed by Edward James Olmos.

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One of the greatest things in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be.

Authority, Life, Life Is, Things, Things In Life, Want

Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.

Back, Fall, Falling Down, Life Is, Times

If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners. They rise, or fall, to the level of the expectations of those around them, especially their parents and their teachers.

Fall, Kids, Level, Rise, Teacher, Winners

You burros have calculus in your blood.

Blood, Burros, Calculus, Math

The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

Condemning, Day, Poverty, Quitting, School

Ask 'How will they learn best?' not 'Can they learn?'.

Ask, Asks, Growth, Growth Mindset, Learn

One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be. Respect yourself and respect the integrity of others as well. The greatest thing you have is your self image, a positive opinion of yourself. You must never let anyone take it from you.

Authority, Image, Integrity, Self, Take, Want

If we expect students to be winners and expect them to do well, they will rise to the occasion.

Occasion, Rise, Students, Wells, Winner

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

Believe, Ganas, Gifted, Knowledge, Math, Students

"Ganas is all you need. "

Ganas, Knowledge, Math, Needs

Education is the ticket to success

Education, Success, Ticket, Tickets

It goes like this: teaching is touching life

Life, Like, Teaching, Touching

We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

American, Education, Future, Hard Work, Knowledge, Work