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....

Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.....

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....

Because if they grow up holding on to such terrible feelings, it could lead to another war come time....

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....

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.