Who is the Greatest Teacher in History?

Jaime Escalante refused low expectations for his students

Jaime Escalante was a Bolivian-American teacher who taught AP calculus at a high school in LA from 1974-91.
When Escalante arrived at the school, it was low-performing and expectations for student success were minimal, but he refused to accept the status quo. He promised students that if they learned math they would be able to control their futures, and began teaching AP Calculus.
School administrators initially opposed Escalante’s techniques and he was almost fired, but a change in management meant he could continue his experiment.
Before long the results started to show: During his first year teaching calculus in 1978, two students passed the AP exam. Five years later 30 students passed, and by the time Escalante left the school in 1991 the maths enrichment program had grown to 400 students.
He was awarded the Presidential Medal for Excellence in Education in 1998.
Escalante said of his time as a teacher: “The key to my success with youngsters is a very simple and time-honored tradition: hard work for teacher and student alike.”

Anne Sullivan raised the bar for disability education

Anne Sullivan was best known for being the teacher of author and lecturer Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf.
Sullivan was partially sighted herself and learned to read and write at a school for the blind. When she became Keller’s teacher aged 20, she had her first breakthrough when she taught Keller the word ‘water’ by running water on one of her hands while tracing the letters of the word on her other hand.
Within six months Keller had learned 575 words, basic multiplication, and Braille, completely transforming her ability to communicate.
Sullivan’s pioneering teaching success brought her national attention. She continued to support Keller throughout her college education by spelling out class lectures and communicating information from textbooks.
These efforts saw her student become the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college in the US, creating a new milestone for disability education.

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