Expectations Featured Artist Joanne Durham
Synkroniciti is honored to welcome North Carolina poet Joanne Durham with two poems that return us to school, a place of possibility shadowed by unspoken rules and expectations. “Seventh Grade, …
“Dreams” Featured Artist Emilie Lygren
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome back poet Emilie Lygren of California with “Book of Records,” a poem exploring the relentless competitive drive our culture instills in children. Remembering elementary school …
“Belonging” Featured Artist Joanne Durham
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome poet Joanne Durham, who resides in North Carolina, with two poems dealing with societal prejudice and exclusion, particularly in school systems. The masterful prose poem …
“Family” Featured Artist Ken Farrell
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome Texan writer and poet Ken Farrell with “American Heritage, 1987,” an unflinching poetic examination of the effect of family violence, abuse and torment on an …
Quote for Today: Robert M. Pirsig
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 …
Quote for Today: John Holt
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 …
Quote for Today: Jean Piaget
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 …
Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter …
Quote for Today: Stanley Kubrick
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of …
Quote for Today: T. C. Boyle
I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at school as an assignment. …