“As I remember, F.M. did not talk much when he was teaching. In his teaching practice he had made it a rule that all new pupils were only accepted if they read the books first. Whether this really worked out I never discovered, but it was obvious that by getting a pupil to have some idea of what to expect from lessons with him, this ruling saved him the trouble of having to explain what he was doing and what his work was all about. We had the problem in that we never knew how to describe his work when asked what we were doing…I remember having a go at a dinner party trying to explain our work by incautiously launching into a description of the head, neck and back relationship and bringing in the word “balance”. Whereupon a whole drawing-roomful of people expostulated “Everybody knows balance comes from the middle ear!” We got no sympathy from F.M., and so, I at any rate, gave up trying to explain our work and I devised various throw-away lines to put off any further inquiry.”
(Taken from “England – The First Training”, The Alexander Review Vol. 2 No. 3 Sept 1987, p25)