The death of Jaime Escalante is in the news today. Escalante was the calculus teacher portrayed in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver who had his students in a low-income, East Los Angeles school passing the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Listening to a remembrance today on NPR’s Morning Edition, I heard the word ganas emphasized:
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.
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So, “you want to gain” or “you want to earn” or “you want to win.”
Even in dying, Jaime Escalante has taught me something.
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