“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eifman Ballet returns to the Auditorium May 17-19 for the North American premiere of artistic director Boris Eifman’s The Pygmalion Effect. The latest in the choreographer’s spectacular psychological ...

Boris Eifman Ballet's performance at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center (TAPAC), September 19, marks the return of cultural routines after a long break. Like the migrating swallows that foretell the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...