In 1924 a child whose parents were in India was sent to Alexander for lessons. He was nervous and excitable and Alexander felt that he needed daily help in employing the new use of himself in his schoolwork. Other parents who were themselves having lessons asked for the same kind of help for their children, and a class was set up to provide academic instruction for them, “upon the principle,” Alexander wrote, “that the end for which they are working is of minor importance as compared with the way they direct the use of themselves for the gaining of that end.”
(Taken from “Freedom to Change” – chapter 2 p49)