F. Matthias Alexander
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Frederick Matthias Alexander was an Australian actor and author who developed the Alexander technique, an educational process said to recognize and overcome reactive, habitual limitations in movement
F Matthias Alexander
The Australian Building, Melbourne, to the left, where FM Alexander taught his technique.
John Dewey
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John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
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…American society, including their lack of involvement, until 1917, in the First World War. In 1916, the American philosopher and educational pioneer John Dewey became a pupil. Dewey had long suffered from stress-related health issues, and these had become acute in the wake of a series of personal and professional…
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Dewey at the University of Chicago in 1902
Dewey and Hu Shih, c. 1938–1942
Dewey in China in 1920