Alexander Firestone has dedicated his life to education, using Mathematics as a vehicle to help students become logical, confident, caring, and responsible thinkers, capable of solving complex societal problems that include mental, spiritual, social, and physical challenges. He believes Mathematics unites intellectual reasoning with spiritual insight, two unique gifts given to humanity by our Creator. Through these, he argues, we have survived conflict and ecological crises.

Alexander's life journey began during wartime Britain, working from the age of five picking potatoes. At eight, he was washing windows with his father. Motivated by a promise of a Meccano set, he became top of a class of 50, a sign of the perseverance that would define his life. His family later immigrated to Los Angeles, where he supported himself from age 11 by selling newspapers, eventually managing a delivery team of 16 by age 16. With this job, he paid his own way through university.

Motivated to become a teacher, after struggling with ones who couldn't support his need for deep understanding, he studied education while working full-time. After an unexpected job interview at Electro-Optical Systems (a leading aerospace research firm), he was hired despite fierce competition. His ability to deeply understand and creatively solve problems led to success as a research physicist, co-authoring several patents in deep-space propulsion systems.

However, he soon realized his formal education had not truly prepared him to solve real-world problems. He began a personal journey of inquiry into the fundamentals of Mathematics, asking questions like: What is addition? What is Mathematics? This led him to develop an approach to learning rooted in three pillars: What (Concept), How (Rule), and Why (Reflection and Visualization).

He later returned to his passion, teaching, and emigrated to Australia with his wife, Sylvia. As a teacher, he applied the same reasoning methods that made him successful in physics, focusing on understanding rather than rote procedures.

Alexander has delivered talks at international conferences in Australia and New Zealand, and spent four years in China sharing his teaching philosophy, using Mathematics as both an intellectual and spiritual force.