Jaime Escalante famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Jaime Escalante

#Want #Life Is #Authority
Education is the ticket to success
-- Jaime Escalante

#Tickets
Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.
-- Jaime Escalante

#Fall #Life Is #Falling Down
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.
-- Jaime Escalante

#Hard Work #Knowledge #Math
The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.
-- Jaime Escalante

#School #Poverty #Quitting
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.
-- Jaime Escalante

#Teacher #Fall #Kids
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.
-- Jaime Escalante

#Integrity #Self #Want
It goes like this: teaching is touching life
-- Jaime Escalante

#Teaching #Touching
Ask 'How will they learn best?' not 'Can they learn?'.
-- Jaime Escalante

#Growth
I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.
-- Jaime Escalante

#Believe #Knowledge #Math
"Ganas is all you need."
-- Jaime Escalante

#Knowledge #Math #Needs
You burros have calculus in your blood.
-- Jaime Escalante

#Math #Blood #Calculus

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