# How education helped me rewrite my life

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDWomen 2018
- Speaker: Ashweetha
- Year: 2018
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ashweetha_how_education_helped_me_rewrite_my_life)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

There's no greater freedom than finding your purpose, says education advocate Ashweetha. Born to a poor family in rural India, she didn't let the social norms of her community stifle her dreams and silence her voice. In this personal talk, she shares how she found self-worth through education -- and how she's working to empower other rural youth to explore their potential. "All of us are born into a reality that we blindly accept -- until something awakens us and a new world opens up," she says.

## Lectures

1. [How education helped me rewrite my life](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ashweetha_how_education_helped_me_rewrite_my_life/15d9df1fafa7), 11 min (TED's player)