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Most of us are familiar with the proverb "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." Most of us have also come to realise that it is possible to teach and teach until Doomsday, but this does not necessarily result in learning. Ultimately, we all find ourselves face to face with the Grand Question of Questions: "What, in fact, makes students actually learn?" For twenty-five years, a Bulgarian doctor and psychiatrist, Georgi Lozanov, has been studying the link between perception and learning. The result is a new approach to teaching based on new insights into how the human mind really functions. The fruit of Lozanov's findings is a teaching system called Suggestopedia. After twenty years of using this approach and experimenting with its tenets, I am convinced of its effectiveness, and would like to share my enthusiasm.  |
Lonny Gold Founder
of the National Council of Suggestopedia |
