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Fri 09 Sep 2009Every business conference now starts with a tie-less man in a bad suit, tinkering nervously with a USB port
YOU DON’T know real fear until you’ve stood in front of 30 15-year-old schoolchildren on your first day of teacher training. This happened to me nearly 20 years ago, and I still get flashbacks.
Forget what you may have heard of stand-up comedians dying at the Glasgow Empire, there is no audience more discerning or as viciously dismissive as a group of people who have spent a decade in the school system, honing the dark arts.
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