No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.

Consensus demands communication.

It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'