I used to gamble at university, but my best friend's father, a highly respected headmaster, told me that gambling is no fun unless you play it for stakes you can't afford.
For Rehman's father, a respected headmaster a local school, the death of his wife has been devastating.
I'd always been fascinated by the subject, but I talked to a few educators I respected, like Redmond Finney, headmaster of the Gilman School, and Milton Eisenhower, a president of Johns Hopkins University, about whether to choose a more practical major.
In Chashmai Maiwand, however, the women's team has been welcomed by the leader of the village, Shah Mahmad, a former headmaster of the school and, perhaps more important, a widely respected and powerful presence in the village.
"If you have a supply teacher who comes into your school, sometimes they're not treated with the respect that a headmaster is," Sherwood said.
And there was that Oscar for Roman Polanski, the one they should have given him 35 years ago for Rosemary's Baby: first person on his feet to applaud him was fellow nominee Martin Scorsese, Hollywood's senior creative figure, casting his eyes 360-degrees at the audience, like a headmaster sternly demanding that respect be given where it was due.
It had the feel of a end-of-term assembly before the summer holidays, held by a headmaster whom people have a begrudging respect for, despite all the jibes.
It was not a conventional education; he was miserable at school and escaped on lone nature treks, but had an understanding headmaster who treated his unusual behaviour with a serious respect.
He rose to be head boy of the school, but after a dispute with the headmaster during which Henson expressed "with more passion than respect" his opinion of the head, he ran away from the school in 1879.
His father was a headmaster.
