Many a problem child in school is simply a pupil who has failed to find socially acceptable ways of becoming the center of attention. Driven to desperation, he hits often unacceptable devices; he becomes a persistant nuisance that his teachers and his fellow pupils cannot ignore without danger. It is out of this drive to secure the attention of others, so deeply rooted in human nature, that there arises the desire for an audience.
The difficulty is that, when we have secured an audience, we find that we are afraid of it.
We have summoned up the genie only to feel inferior in his presence.