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Pygmalion effect
The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, refers to the phenomenon in which theere is a parallel between teachers expectations and the students performance. The effect is named after a narrative by Ovid in Greek mythology in which Pygmalion is a sculptor who fell in love with the ivory statue of a woman he had carved.
Education
In education the pygmalion effect is said to play a crucial role in the students’ performance. Good or bad, what teachers expect from students they generally get. For exapmle negative expectations, which are often …

Susan Boyle
Born when her mother was 47,Boyle was briefly deprived of oxygen during the difficult birth; she was diagnosed as having learning difficulties. She says she was bullied as a child, and was nicknamed “Susie Simple” at school. After leaving school with few qualifications, she was employed for the only time in her life as a trainee cook in the kitchen of West Lothian College for six months, and took part in government training schemes. She visited the theatre from time to time to listen to professional singers, and performed …