One day I came, as one often does here, across a discarded book. The topic was bizzare: suggestopaedy. Yes, it sounds like a sexual perversion, but it’s not. It’s a scientific analysis of the correlation between classroom learning abilities and hypnotic induction techniques. In rigorously controlled studies, students learning and unfamiliar language were able to almost effortlessly add 200-500 words per day. Students not using the method had difficulty matching half the performance, and in some cases, far less. It’s a brilliant idea: if we are suggestible, why not suggest that we can learn effortlessly (within an environment and in associations of people which support this, of course).