Quotes from Jaime Escalante

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

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

It goes like this: teaching is touching life

Education is the ticket to success

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.

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.

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