The Alexander Foundation School
The Alexander Foundation School was a small private boarding school, running from c. 1947 to the late 1950s or early 1960s in Pennsylvania. History Esther Duke, a pupil of A. R. Alexander, was affiliated with a Quaker school, the Media Friends School, in Pennsylvania. Some time around 1943 she arranged for Irene Stewart and […]
The Little School
The Little School was the first school for children based on the principles of the Alexander Technique. It was started in London (at Ashley Place) in 1924 by Irene Tasker who ran it until 1934. It was called the ‘little school’ and this epithet has been used ever since, even after it acquired an […]