ABSTRACT
Although there is no evidence whatsoever to indicate that Suggestopedia was influenced by Robert Rosenthal and his work on Pygmalion in the classroom, the ideas of Lozanov and Rosenthal regarding the role and impact of the teacher in the classroom are remarkably similar and were developed and advanced at about the same time, viz. the late 1960s. Indeed, when I presented a paper on Rosenthal’s experiments at the First International Symposium on the Problems of Suggestology in Varna, Bulgaria in June 1971 (Bancroft, 1973), I received an enthusiastic response from members of the (then) Soviet and East German delegations as well as from members of the Institute of Suggestology. The enthusiasm had to do, in my opinion, with the recognition that Rosenthal had done work similar to that of suggestopedic researchers.
