A School for Life

Well, in case you didn't noticed the above is a pun, refering to a well known book title about the Alexander Technique, "A Skill for Life".
I like to think of the Alexander Technique as a school for life, rather than a skill for life. One of Alexander's teaching aphorisms is about this diference: "The experience you want is in the process of getting it. [....] Getting it, not having it, is what you want"
A skill is "having it", whereas a school is "getting it".
That is a diference, that afects also the teaching of the technique. "Getting it", means that the student has to get it, he must make the efort.
The teacher must let the student experiment by himself, make mistakes, develop his own understanding, so that he will not depend forever on someone else who knows.

Note: In the above aphorism, Alexander says "you want", but it would be more acurate to say "you should want": we all want the easy way!).