I
and the colleagues I work most closely with don't
consider Suggestopedia as a *method*, but rather
an *approach*, and based on an *attitude*:
the difference isn't just pedantic - we've all seen
plenty of people who follow slavishly what Lozanov
describes, and Gateva used to practice, step by step,
and because of their basic attitudes still produce
a tense situation in which no constructive learning
takes place: and we've seen plenty of people who have
no training and no theory but still intuitively do
everything which produces the magic in which people
want to learn and so they do - because they had the
'right' attitude to their fellow-humans, and used
the 'right' approach in their sessions ...
And
here 'right' means 'one which will lead to releasing
the learner's potential to learn...'