The well-researched Pygmalion Effect (and the pioneering work of Robert Rosenthal) clearly shows that holding positive ...

“High expectations” is the mantra of today’s school reformers, who are convinced that the trouble with public education is that students have been allowed to slide by with little effort. Their version ...

A new study from the Center for American Progress concludes that teachers’ expectations for their students are strongly correlated with students’ graduation rates. Unfortunately, the study also says ...

Linda: The myth of Pygmalion is told in Ovid's Metaphorphoses. Pygmalion was a gifted young sculptor in Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he had carved. Pygmalion had strong misgivings about women ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was an artist who fell in love with one of his ivory sculptures of a woman and prayed to the gods to give ...

The Pygmalion effect essentially posits that the greater the expectations placed on a person, the better he or she performs. Presented here is an exploration of how the Pygmalion effect translates to ...

American inventor Charles F. Kettering said, "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." The Pygmalion effect essentially posits that the greater the expectations that ...