But, nevertheless, I have huge respect for the teaching profession. It is a very difficult profession, trying to inspire children, young men and women, girls and boys, to love learning and to learn. I think of some of the inspirational teachers that I had. Bob Hunt at Auckland Grammar had a glass eye, and you were never quite sure where he was looking. But he was the one who turned the light on in me and, for the first time, made me passionate about learning a particular subject—Japanese, it was. 