R.I.P. Jaime Escalante (the teacher who inspired ‘Stand & Deliver’)

JP Rennquist Mar 31, 2010 1 Comment

I don’t know about you, but he made me want to be a teacher to a bunch of really tough, overlooked but brilliant kids. And it worked, I did it. I even used his line about Mayans being first to popularize the zero to my own mostly Mayan descended students a few years after I saw the film when I was a volunteer teacher in Central America. Oddly enough the film didn’t do much to quell my fear of calculus.

I’m not sure how the film holds up now, 22 years later, but it was a great depiction of a great man. RIP, Maestro Escalante.

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adam

about 15 years ago 

Or how you can get beat down by the system.

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