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.'

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.