ABSTRACT
A healthy mind is often twinned with a healthy body. In more recent centuries, the mind has been raised on a symbolic pedestal above the body, not just a literal one. In schools, this implicit hierarchy, relegating everything below the neck, is alive and well in most of that they do. Physical education, for example, is a poor sibling to the heavyweights of the subject hierarchy: mathematics, the sciences and more. The uniquely physical act of teaching is too often relegated from discussion, thereby neglecting a fundamental aspect of the craft. Physical stress of teaching pushes student's to the edge of their natural capacity. Teachers hunched over their computers at lunchtime, won't be anywhere near as refreshed as the teacher who has had a good lunch and perhaps even a little meander around school. In the age of the spreadsheet, they should be mindful that teaching will always be a deeply personal act of communication-one defined by trust and care.
