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Jaime Escalante

Researcher

13 quotes in 58 categories

Jaime Escalante is a researcher.

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Profession: Researcher

About Jaime Escalante

Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez was a Bolivian-American educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. Escalante was the subject of the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, in which he is portrayed by Edward James Olmos.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jaime Escalante

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

Jaime Escalante

Believe

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

Jaime Escalante

Fall

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If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners.…

Jaime Escalante

Expectations

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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.…

Jaime Escalante

Authority

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One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want…

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Authority

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"Ganas is all you need."

Jaime Escalante

Knowledge

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

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Ifs

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

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Condemning

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Education is the ticket to success

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Funny

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It goes like this: teaching is touching life

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Education

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You burros have calculus in your blood.

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Blood

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We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future…

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American education

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

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Asks

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