Mr. Escalante's success

               Tying the second half of the movie into my opinion of Mr. Escalante only builds upon the foundation that I gave in the last blog entry.  The passion that he shows when teaching these kids that the rest of the world had given up on is meaningful for reasons beyond that of the immediate.  His selflessness and sacrifice were felt for many years and the results of his work only grew as the years went by.  Not only were his adaptive methods of teaching paramount to his success, they also enabled him to breach the divide of the socio-economic stigmas of the time (which unfortunately still exist today). 

               During the second half of the movie I witnessed the passion that I spoke of before when Mr. Escalante suffered a heart attack.  Despite this serious health issue he still reached out to the kids with the help of a nurse and continued to teach.  He even returned to work before the doctors recommendations because the students were in a crunch time for the AP test.  There were numerous occasions where the students were about to descend back into the depravity they had ascended from yet they were saved because of the mere influence that Mr. Escalante had had on them.  His passion is what they needed in order to acquire the desire to learn.  So all in all I believe that the key to his success was his passion from which stems all the attributes mentioned earlier and in other blogs posts.