Unfortunately, as a Discovery Institute study documented last week, many of the icons cited by Wells are alive and well in supplementary instructional materials recently submitted by publishers to the Texas State Board of Education. A prime example is the Miller-Urey origin of life experiment.
In Ovid's narrative, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. According to Ovid, after seeing the Propoetides he was not interested in women, but his statue was so fair and realistic that he fell in love with it. In time, Aphrodite's festival day came, and Pygmalion made offerings at the altar of Aphrodite. Thereâtoo scared to admit his desireâhe quietly wished for a bride who would be the living likeness of my ivory girl. When he returned home, he kissed his ivory statue, and found that its lips felt warm.
1 Belief that all students can learn. 2  Since the famous Rosenthal experiment in the late 1960s, the Pygmalion effect â the observation that teachers' expectations for their students affect how well students learn â has been well documented (Hattie, 2009).