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.'

Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.