…but there are again a number of techniques for training people to be aware of their kinesthetic experiences for example John Dewey wrote with immense enthusiasm about the method developed by F.M. Alexander for, first of all, becoming aware of kinesthetic…

…experiences, and also for getting into the right postural state, the proper relationship between the head and neck and the trunk. And Dewey wrote prefaces to three of his books and mentioned the work also in his book on human nature and in the chapter…

…but there are again a number of techniques for training people to be aware of their kinesthetic experiences for example John Dewey wrote with immense enthusiasm about the method developed by F.M. Alexander for, first of all, becoming aware of kinesthetic…

…and also for getting into the right postural state, I mean, the proper relationship between the head and neck and the trunk. And Dewey wrote prefaces to three of his books and mentioned the work also in his book on human nature, and in the chapter on…

…any success. Some people have listened sympathetically, but I think sooner or later this will be done. I mean, for example, John Dewey, who I thought was the apostle of modern education. stressed this very strongly in a number of his writings, but this…

…But then let me very briefly touch on another mode, another exercise, another technique of awareness, which is a technique which John Dewey greatly recommended. It is a technique devised by the late F.M. Alexander, which is a technique of being aware of…

…wrong use of the self, and of taking lessons in the right use, which, again, is too complicated to describe at length. But Dewey was so convinced of its enormous value that in one of the prefaces that he wrote to Alexander's books, he says that…

…whereby that ideal can be realized. But this is obviously extremely high praise, and yet the extraordinary fact is that although Dewey has had an immense influence on education and the minds of educators in general, nobody has paid the slightest attention…

…some of these possibilities. On the level of training in the kinesthetic awareness, here we can appeal to the authority of John Dewey, which was considerable in the field of education, who spoke very, very warmly of the system devised by F.M. Alexander,…

…method of what he called creative conscious control, as something which was to education, what education was to life in general. Dewey himself had undertaken the training and was enthusiastic for it and regarded it as of immense importance in the whole…

…fact, I know of only one person working in any university in this country who has taken the trouble to acquaint himself with what Dewey was talking about and who is attempting to teach it. But here, as I say, there is a very important field lying open,…

…say, I think will prove to be of very great value. But then briefly, let me touch on another technique of awareness, which John Dewey was greatly interested him in I refer to the technique developed by FM Alexander who died at the age of 80 something…

…aware of the posture which in fact permits the best possible physical and mental functioning of the psychophysical organism. And Dewey, who himself had studied the technique with Alexander, wrote introductions to three of his books. And he says quite…

…really doing some good. And one of the strange things is that among the hundreds of thousands of educators who have followed Dewey, Virtually none, so far as I know, have paid any attention to this thing, to this method of training the mind-body, which…

…Virtually none, so far as I know, have paid any attention to this thing, to this method of training the mind-body, which Dewey regarded as of primary importance in education. This has been allowed simply to fall away, and it is in fact practiced only…

…say, of Dewey's conception of learning through doing and of education as life adjustment and self-realization. They have applied these principles of Dewey in such a way that in many schools there is now a great deal of doing without any learning and also…

…in any rational education at the present time or at any time, but there is also this other element, the element which Dewey calls life adjustment and self-realization. This has always been regarded as one of the ends of education, the most important end,…

…all beyond the bounds of possibility, we have to ask in relation to this, will this promote the self-realization of which John Dewey spoke in our vocabulary, will it help us towards understanding? Now, however excellent such an education may be, I don't…