If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rather than social need. Now it is a work of necessity.

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

To have an idea of a thing is not just to get certain sensations from it. It is to be able to respond to the thing in view of its place in an inclusive scheme of action; it is to foresee the drift and probable consequence of the action of the thing upon us and of our action upon it.

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

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.'

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.