We have numerous examples of people who refused to accept barriers such as Roger Bannister when he ran the mile in less than four minutes and Chuck Yeager who broke the sound barrier. One of my favorite stories is a true story about a student who solved an unsolvable math problem:
One day in 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, a doctoral candidate at the
University of California, Berkeley, arrived late for a graduate-level statistics
class and found two problems written on the board. Not knowing they were
examples of unsolved statistics problems, he mistook them for part of a homework
assignment, jotted them down, and solved them. (The equations Dantzig
tackled are more accurately described not as unsolvable problems, but as
unproved statistical theorems for which he worked out proofs.)I agree with Jaime Escalante, "Students can learn to overcome any barrier they will ever face." Therefore, it would behoove us to use the bumble bee as one of our Esperanza Elementary symbols.
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