Captain Chemo Keating Escalante

Like many teachers, these teachers do in fact teach. Their styles, however, dictate who and what they stand for. And like most heroes, these ones have great abs and chiseled faces, hypothetically.

Chemo Escalante is an instructor who's strict, a hard worker, but also respectful and excellent with relating to teenagers in tough times. He finds the good in each student. He doesn't tell them exactly what their good at, but instead makes them believe it themselves through proof. He's a coach. He believes in his team and believes that they can really make a difference in their own lives and others. As he said in the film (Stand and Deliver), you're looking at the short term and not the road ahead. He has each of his students future in mind.

Captain, oh Captain Keating is a mentor of quirky openness. In way, the students at Wheaton(?) are puppets for their parents. All of them have plans for their sons, and many of the sons don't want what their parents want for them. Keating enlightens that fact. He address the boys much different than any other teacher would. Creates scenarios that makes the boys think in different ways, and see things from another perspective. He's breaking them of the norm, and encouraging the 'shell to crack' in each of the students minds. He believes in each of the boys, just like Escalante, but in ways that dictate what they will become. He believes that they can make their own choices, have their own opinions, and choose their own calling. He's not worried about them getting a job, or graduating.