Title: Teacher Portrayed in 'Stand And Deliver' Dies : NPR
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Content: CLAUDIO SANCHEZ: For 20 years, the Bolivian-born Escalante taught calculus and advanced math at Garfield High School in one of east L.A.'s most notorious barrios, a place where poor, hardened street kids were not supposed to master mathematics - certainly not algebra, trigonometry, calculus. But Escalante believed that a teacher should never, ever let a student give up. So I asked him what kept you from giving up. ESCALANTE: You have to love the subject you teach. And you have to love the kids and make them see that they have a chance, opportunity, in this country to become whatever they want to. SANCHEZ: And to make it, Escalante often said, you need ganas, Spanish for desire and drive. Ganas was Escalante's battle cry, not just in motivating his students but every time he chided apathetic administrators and jaded teachers.