His pupils describe him as the best teacher in their school career, who makes lessons from the sleepy and daunting subject of history, fun. This teacher is at Graeme College, one of the schools in Grahamstown that got the most distinctions for history in the recent matric exams. Grocott's Mail spoke to Grade 12 History teacher, Robin Stephenson, to find out what he's doing right. Humbled by the compliment that he seems to have the formula for good results, Stephenson said, "One has to look at comparative schools.

There are some schools that are privileged in our country and others are not. The culture of learning is stronger in some schools." He said if they were doing something right, it must be that they'd managed to achieve the fundamental aim - for the learners to engage with the subject, debate it, learn life lessons from the subject and have opinions concerning it.