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Not Merely Sit-Up-Straight School

Posted in Classes, experiment, learning as loss, responsibility, teaching kids, thinking skills on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

One way to start teaching about the Alexandrian ideals of “use” is to give people an appreciation of it. I got a suggestion to have people watch each other move and see if they can describe each other’s posture. Compare “good” to “bad” use. Maybe people can learn to spot and admire “good” use, for [...]

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Notes on Teaching Kids

Posted in Classes, assumptions, core experience, imprinting, questioning, thinking skills on October 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »

If I were presenting the principles of Alexander Technique to kids, I would start with basic thinking skills of revealing assumptions. I would teach what is an assumption as being a habit of a ground rule in games. I’d outline some basic thinking strategies as strategy in game play. I’d go through some common decision-making [...]

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