Quotes by : Erin Gruwell

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn....

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our....

It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or....

It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather....

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world....

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably....

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities....

When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning....

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.