“ Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to j… Erin Gruwell
“ I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching… Erin Gruwell
“ Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport. Erin Gruwell
“ I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world. Erin Gruwell
“ When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life. Erin Gruwell
“ That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community. Erin Gruwell
“ I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered. Erin Gruwell
“ It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. ... World… Erin Gruwell
“ It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thought… Erin Gruwell
“ I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taugh… Erin Gruwell
“ Because if they grow up holding on to such terrible feelings, it could lead to another war come time in the future when the fate of the country is in their hands. Erin Gruwell
