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| Three Levels of Student: Which one are/were you? Friday, March 9, 2007 The Tamil scripturs speak of three levels of student. The first level is like a swan or a cow. If you give a swan a bowl of milk mixed with water, it has the capacity to extract the milk, leaving the water behind. Likewise, the topmost student will always glean what is good and valuable in a situation and leave anything undesirable behind. A cow accomplishes the same thing, but with a different technique. Initially, he ingests everything while grazing, but then he brings it up again, chews it well, and spits out anything undesirable. The second level of student is compared to a parrot or an apple seed. If you teach a parrot to say "Ram, Ram," he will say "Ram, Ram." Teach him to say, "Poppycock," and he will say, "Poppycock." In either case, he will have no idea of the meaning behind his utterance. If you plant an apple seed, you will get an apple tree and only an apple tree. No new development will emerge. Similarly, this type of student never really goes deep to understand and integrate the teachings. Instead, he simply regurgitates back exactly what he heard. The third level of student is likened to a goat, buffalo, pot with holes, or tea strainer. A goat can be restless. He will eat a little here, then a little there. He doesn't stick to one place and go deep. If a buffalo comes to a clear pool of water to drink, he will first roll around in the water, strring up all the mud, and then drink. Likewise, for some students, no sooner do they hear the teachings, than they get muddled in their minds. A pot with holes represents the proverbial "in one ear, out the other" approach to learning: nothing of value is retained. At least that is better than the last category, the tea strainer. This type of student only retains the dregs; if anything undesirable comes along, that is what attracts his interest. So, which one are you? As I have mentioned earlier, my math teacher called me a parrot, and, indeed, I think of myself as a parrot. =3 4 Comments. It's not my house, it's the house my bf lives in... it's a tad ridiculous, the amount of mice. :/ » ikimashokie on 2007-03-10 11:27:15 I'M NUMBAH ONE BABY! COUNT IT! Actually, I'm more of a mix between one and three. » Dilated on 2007-03-12 02:43:30 Most students are parrots... It's how the system works. I'd like to be the cow, but I think at this point in my education I've regressed to a tea strainer. :/ » ikimashokie on 2007-03-13 12:23:43 This phrase, is matchless))) What words... super, a brilliant phrase buy tramadol online Excellent variant buy adipex online I refuse. xanax drug Aha, has got! davidoff cigarettes Very amusing information Valium 10mg 783a45 » Kim (60.217.232.45) on 2010-09-04 05:20:45
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