Erin Gruwell: All Over The World Of Education

Erin Gruwell is a name known all over the world of education. She not only set out to do the impossible, but succeeded as well. Her courage and unbreakable faith in her students not only impacted them, but also the whole nation. They became an inspiration to all who were judged and written off. She taught them that they could be create and achieve their long-term goals and to never give up. Though she certainly did something with her life, she didn’t start from the top. Gruwell is a Southern California native born on August 15, 1969. Her first obstacle in life became her parents’ divorce. Her father, Stephen Douglas Gruwell, and mother, Sandra Faye Alley, decided to separate when Gruwell was at a young age. She would later on graduate from Bonita High School, while also staying in California for her years in college. She earned a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Humanities from the University of California, Irvine in …show more content…
Their lack of knowledge and understanding or world events didn’t waver Gruwell’s determination. It only gave her another reason to strive for the goals she created for herself. Leaders are not born, they are made. Her students from Room 203 helped shape her as much as she helped change them. Her principles of education emphasize diversity. Through her lectures and speeches, her students were able to pick themselves back up and were not letting themselves get knocked back down again. Even with all the odds stacked against them, each student of hers was able to complete their first real goal. They graduated high school and went off to college. Gruwell is not just a teacher with unbelievable achievements. She is also an education activist, the founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation, and author alongside her students of the nonfiction book, The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. She is well known