“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 ...

When we expect certain behaviours of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behaviour more likely to occur. Robert Rosenthal George Bernard Shaw, in his famous play, Pygmalion, ...

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 ...

If, like me, your only knowledge of Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg is the company’s 2017 trip to Chicago for “Red Giselle,” the North American premiere of artistic director Boris Eifman’s “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 ...

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 ...