Synkroniciti is thrilled to announce the winner of our “Dreams” poetry contest, Ankita Sadarjoshi’s “graduation.” We had eight finalists and all of them will be included in the issue, along …
That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get …
It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations. So many learning environments in the …
What is most surprising of all is how much fear there is in school. Why is so little said about it. Perhaps most people do not recognize fear in children …
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator …
The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement really flooded our schools. Schools, caught up in …
If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated …
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men …
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and …
Society changes constantly. How do we respond to the alienation and loneliness that result from these changes? Kokoro, which can be translated as The Heart of Things, is a novel written by …
