(교육) 훌륭한 스승 은혜의 보답
훌륭한 스승 은혜의 보답
Now to an age-old question. What killed the dinosaurs? 40 one of the world’s top researchers reported today a giant asteroid is to blame. It was 9 miles wide and slammed into Mexico with the force of billion times more powerful than the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima. The asteroid kicked up a dust cloud that shrouded덮다 the earth in darkness wiping out most of its species.
Most of us remember teacher who inspired us. For me, it’s my high school government teacher, Max Smith, but for many students from Garfield high school in Los Angeles, it’s Jaime Escalante. He was celebrated in a Hollywood movie. Now John Blackstone tells us his former students and famous friends are trying to stand and deliver 꼼짝 말고 가진 것을 몽땅 내놓아라 for him.
They are old friends who changed each other’s lives and the lives of many more. Actor Edward James Olmos and teacher Jaime Escalante, now 79. “Don’t let that word calculus intimidate you.” In the 1980s, Escalante was striving to매진하다 turn inner city kids in Los Angeles into top-achieving math students. Olmos played Escalante in the 1988 movie, Stand and Deliver. And the world learned of the inspirational teacher and the unlikely students who excelled뛰어나게 잘하다 in the nation's toughest college entrance math exam.
It's Escalante's real triumphs at Los Angeles' Garfield High that Olmos is hoping people will remember now, we made it, we did make it, because Jaime Escalante is dying. He has bladder cancer방광암, a few months to live at most. His voice is weak, but his pride remains strong in the kids he helped lift out of poverty by preparing them for college.
Among Escalante's graduates is Erika Camacho. Before she took his algebra 대수학 class, her only goal was to be a cashier출납원. Now at 34, she's a Ph.D. and math professor at Arizona State University. "You owe him to do good because he put so much of himself to make sure that you succeed that it's only fair to give back what he has given to you." Escalante's illness and medical treatments have drained진이 빠지다 his resources. “Have you heard from some of your former students?”
Those he helped are now helping him, so far raising $19,000 for his care. He’s not giving up. “You don’t count how many times you are on the floor. You count how many times you get up.” Ever the teacher, Jaime Escalante is still giving lessons in determination. John Blackstone, CBS News, Rena, Nevada.