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Linh,

Thank you for this post. You are describing a very powerful psychological impact known as the Pygmalion Effect. A teacher who truely believes a student will succeeed will unconsciously act in a way that leads the student to adopting the same success belief. The opposite is also true. A teacher who does not believe in a student will unconsciusly communicate the non-belief to students who will eventually internalize that belief.

Jeffrey Schillinger

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