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   Please allow me to indulge the idea that I would like to be manual laborer (or pro athlete) without taking the assertion too seriously.  I would like to be one of the above physical workers because I get really tired and bored of sitting in class/the library all day long and reading and writing.  What I really mean is that I want balance between thinking and acting (physically).  In fact, I think that our education system does a relatively good job of encouraging moving the body, as well exercising the mind, although as we progress in education this balance seems to diminish.  As an elementary, high school, and college student I spent hours every single day playing sports where I learned to move my body.  Now I am lucky to spend hours a week doing so, what a pity. 

  As Ken Robinson said, some (many) people in our society end up being disembodied, as if our bodies are vehicles for moving the mind mind from meeting to meeting (or classroom to library).  It seems that our culture has also become disembodied.  When we speak of modern survival it seems that buildings and structures take precedence over the structure (temple?) that we are, our body.  The single most important element of survival is our body, it is who we are and if we do not take care of it then it becomes dysfunctional.  So here's to embodying the body and encouraging a balance between exercising the mind and the body both in school and everywhere...