In the Kingdom of Fife many years ago, a youngish music teacher was well into a lesson on funky drumming in which a room full of 14-year-old students were clapping, grunting and moving to an infectious groove. The door opened and in walked the headteacher.
‘Mr Michael, I want to see you outside.’
Mr. Michael followed the head to the corridor thinking: ‘OK I lost my register again, big deal,’ when the head said: ‘The trouble with you, Richard Michael, is that you get paid to enjoy yourself when the rest of us teachers are teaching Pythagoras, the rain forest and bl***y quadratic equations and you're in there enjoying yourself.’
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