Introduction to Suggestopedia: Pocket Therapists Guide

By Dr. Mel Gill and Dr. Georgi Losanov

The human mind is the singularly most complicated device on the planet. Versatile, by definition, it single-handedly conducts every complicated process and function needed to run the human system. It allows us to think, grow, create and, perhaps most impressively, to learn. But, just what can we learn? Is there a limitation to our subject matter, or a limitation to the rate at which we learn? For years, everyone from experts, to college students to everyone and anyone in-between have asked this question from all over the world.
Just how smart are we? Can we learn more? What are our limits?

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Apr 13, 2010
• ISBN: 9781483516479

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Introduction to Suggestopedia

The human mind is the singularly most complicated device on the planet. Versatile, by definition, it single-handedly conducts every complicated process and function needed to run the human system. It allows us to think, grow, create and, perhaps most impressively, to learn. But, just what can we learn? Is there a limitation to our subject matter, or a limitation to the rate at which we learn? For years, everyone from experts, to college students to everyone and anyone in-between have asked this question from all over the world.

Just how smart are we? Can we learn more? What are our limits?

In 1882, a man named Francis Galton would make the first, albeit, unsuccessful attempt to create a standardized intelligence test for the common people. Later on, in 1905, French psychologist Alfred Binet, and his colleagues Victor Henri and Théodore Simon would follow in Galton’s footsteps with the Binet-Simon test, focused entirely on verbal abilities. Eventually, others would come along with the modern day Intelligence Quota (IQ) to weight and measure our capabilities.

But what of our limitations? Beyond all the theories of how much we can do, people began to speculate about what we could not do. When and where do we stop? Are intelligence and learning capacity like a measuring cup, and we as vessels limited to only hold a certain amount? Or, is it more like a scale that can weigh as much as it’s given to evaluate?

This question has been asked over and over. Eventually, experts would agree that past a certain stage of development that there were no uncharted lands in the human psyche. The reserve capacity was met, and we were maxed out.

Then, in the early 1960’s, brilliant Bulgarian educator and psychiatrist Georgi Lozanov would challenge this idea and change the course of human history forever by developing what we now know as