John Dewey and the Alexander Technique
It [the F.M. Alexander Technique] bears the same relation to education that education
itself bears to all other human activities.
~ John Dewey
From the Literature:
- Introduction by John Dewey to Man's Supreme Inheritance by F. Matthias Alexander
- Introduction by John Dewey to Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual by F. Matthias Alexander
- Introduction by John Dewey to The Use of the Self by F. Matthias Alexander
- "Habits and Will" (from Human Nature and Conduct) by John Dewey
- "Preoccupation with the Disconnected" by John Dewey
- "Dewey and Alexander" by Frank Pierce Jones
- "John Dewey and the Alexander Technique" by Jo Ann Boydston
- "Human Nature and Conduct and Alexander." An excerpt from Frederick Matthias Alexander and John Dewey: A Neglected Influence by Eric David McCormack
- Excerpt from Frederick Matthias Alexander and John Dewey: A Neglected Influence by Eric David McCormack
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Credit for most of the content, and the inspiration, for this John Dewey website goes to my Alexander Technique teacher, Alexander Murray. In the late 1960s, Professor Murray embarked on a research project, collecting writings concerning the John Dewey–F. M. Alexander connection. He published a compilation of these writings in the early 1990s in four booklets for Alexander Technique teachers. Reading these booklets inspired me to create this website in 1997. –Marian Goldberg
Booklet I Booklet II Booklet III Booklet IV
John Dewey and the Alexander Technique
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