Being A Good Student...

PLEASE NOTE: This post will be constantly updated...

This post is dedicated to all my Teachers for having accepted me as their Student... and who themselves are very Good Students to their Teachers even Today...

In order to be a Good Student you must first have a clear understanding of certain facts & truths...

1. KNOWLEDGE OR SKILLS ARE WHAT HELP A PERSON HAPPILY & SUCCESSFULLY EXIST, SURVIVE & MULTIPLY(Our basic instincts) IN THIS WORLD.
2. Knowledge/Skills are numerous but we mainly Learn Knowledge/Skills that will Benefit/Aid/Assist/Satisfy us:
   • Physically, Mentally & Spiritually
     
   • Economically, Financially, Socially etc.
3. But Attaining/Obtaining/Gaining Knowledge/Skills is not an easy task, as in order to attain/obtain/gain Knowledge/Skills you need to Learn it, Practice it and continue to Increase, Enhance & Perfect it.
4. To Learn you have to either
   • Teach/Train yourself (The Difficult way)
     By Understanding the Importance & Need of that Knowledge/Skill, Observation, Thinking(Imagination & Creativity), combined with Experimentation (Trial & Error) that is not only dangerous/risky but may also cause serious loss/damage physically, mentally & spiritually in addition to financial and other losses.
   • Learn it from a Documented Medium like Books, Dvds etc (The Limited Way).
   • Learn it from a Person "A Teacher", (The Easy Way) who has learnt it by himself (The Difficult Way) or from another Person (The Easy Way). 
5. But fortunately or unfortunately Not everyone has the caliber, intelligence, time and patience to first research/experiment/figure out the How, When, What & Why of things and then document it and learn it. Neither are they able to learn anything of quality from Books, DVDs etc.
6. Most People possessing any kind of Important, Life Saving Knowledge/Skill would NEVER want to share His Complete Knowledge/Skill with any third party, because He or his Children and Family could in turn be Challenged Or Would have to Compete with the very same ungrateful person (or his family/students) they taught and shared their knowledge with, That is Why Most Secret Arts/Knowledge/Skills were and even today are still being transferred, only within the same family from father to Child for generations.
7. YOU WANT TO BECOME A STUDENT ONLY BECAUSE YOU WANT TO LEARN/BE GUIDED IN THAT KNOWLEDGE/SKILL THAT YOU DON'T KNOW OR LACK.
8. YOU WANT SOMEONE TO BE YOUR TEACHER  ONLY BECAUSE YOU WANT THAT PERSON (TEACHER) TO TEACH YOU/GUIDE YOU IN THAT KNOWLEDGE/SKILL THAT YOU DON'T KNOW OR LACK.
9. So to be a Student, you must have a Teacher
   Many think that they can learn from Books, Audio & Videos etc, because they are oblivious or ignorant of the fact that, these lifeless, insensitive, unintelligent mediums are:
   
   • Only documentations of a person's (teacher's) Knowledge/Skill and each medium has numerous limitations in being able to replicate & convey that Knowledge/Skill completely and exactly the way, the Teacher knows and understands it.
   • No Teacher (there may be a few exceptions) would or even want to give out all his/her knowledge to the public domain where it could be misused etc.
   • Unable to impart the Ethical, Philosophical & Spiritual Aspects related to a Knowledge/Skill that, can be only Learnt from & Practiced under the guidance of a teacher.
   • Not intelligent or able to OBSERVE and CORRECT you when you are wrong WHICH IS THE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT REASON WHY ONE NEEDS A TEACHER.
   • Unable to customize your training depending on your physical, mental and spiritual needs, abilities, changes or  limitations.
   • Unable to sensitively boost your morale, encourage and push you to the max, thus helping you to achieve your maximum potential, that is possible only in the presence of a Teacher.
10. To have a Teacher you must have a Person Willing To Teach YOU Everything He Knows Completely, Selflessly, Without Bias, Fear of Competition or Challenge.
11. No matter who you are, What you are, Where you are from, What you do...
    You can never force anyone to teach you anything or everything that they know(No matter how much or how little they know) or accept you as their student/disciple.
    If you think you can threaten a teacher to teach you, then don't forget "Only a Teacher knows How much he knows, What he knows, and every minute detail of what he knows", you are foolish to think you can get everything out of him
12. IT IS YOU WHO IS IN NEED OF THE KNOWLEDGE/SKILL THAT A TEACHER HAS.
13. IT IS YOU WHO IS GOING TO THE TEACHER, REQUESTING/BEGGING FOR HIM TO TEACH YOU AND ACCEPT YOU AS HIS STUDENT/DISCIPLE.
14. Don't think that you are doing your teacher a favor by learning from him.
15. If you think you are too great a person to fall at the feet of a teacher THEN YOU ARE NOT FIT TO BE A STUDENT - GO FIND YOUR OWN WAY, waste your time INVENT THE WHEEL.

Now that you have comprehended the much needed truths and facts, let us understand the concepts of Being A Good Student.

Let me start by clearing the meaning of the words "Student", "Skilled Student" & "Good Student":
A "Student" Is One Who Learns From A Teacher/Instructor
A "Skilled Student" is one who is very Good in the Skills he has been taught, BUT it in no way does it define him/her to be a "Good Student"...

So to be a "Good Student" One must

1. First understand "Why One Is A Student", "How One Became A Student" and "How One Chose To Be A Particular Teacher's Student", most of which I have already explained above.
2. Be Dedicated And Passionate Towards And Always Respect His Art, Irrespective of whether he is Good or Bad in it. 
3. Be Perseverant and never brake down on failures, Everyone Has their own learning speed, but no matter how slow a student is, If he is determined and does not give up He will definitely Learn and most probably much better than the ones who learnt things pretty quickly.
4. Know How To Learn, Because "Even To Learn, One MUST Know How To Learn" (My next topic of Discussion)
5. Forever be Grateful and In-Debt to One's Teacher for having accepted him/her as a Student//Disciple.
6. Never Ever Dare Test. Disrespect, Compete or worse Challenge One's Teacher in anyway.
7. Understand and know That IT IS NOT AT ALL NECESSARY FOR One's TEACHER TO KNOW EVERYTHING, AND THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A BETTER MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE PERSON/TEACHER THAN One's Own Teacher, But That Can And Should Never Belittle Him in anyway.
8. Understand and know that One's Teacher Is A Human Being too and Not God, and So Is Entitled to Make his/her Own Share of Mistakes and Be Forgiven For It, The Same Way We Would Want To Be Forgiven For Our Own Mistakes.
9. Understand that the Money Paid as Fee, Is Not The Cost/Price of A Teacher's Knowledge, It is nothing more than a Token of Appreciation to compensate in the smallest way possible for The Teacher's Valuable and Precious Time That He Could Spend In His OWN PERSONAL TRAINING OR IN TRAINING HIS OWN FAMILY and Knowledge that he would otherwise share only with his own blood.
10. Never Misuse one's Knowledge/Skills.
11. [TO BE UPDATED WITH TIME...]

Hope this post helps enlighten most of the Lost Souls Who Think Be A Student Is As Simple As Sitting In a Classroom Or Making Someone A Teacher Is Similar To Buying A Commodity...