 When I began school teaching, I was put straight into the deep end and that deep end was the students would not pay attention, they weren't engaged. It was quite different to what I was taught at university but I had a quirk. I had a knack, the students would ask me, sir, how tall are you? Do you bump your head when you walk in on the door frame? What shoe size are you? And they were really obsessed with my sneakers just like the ones I'm wearing today. I wore a different pair every day and not before long the students would, to the disapproval of their teachers and me, skip their class to find out what I was wearing on my feet that day. Success, I had their attention.