The Professor - Student Relationship: Learning Through Osmosis

It is for this reason that students should see what their teachers have done, what they studied, pick their brains and strive to be greater. If your professor studied at the Sorbonne and does his or her job (which is educating you) properly, then theoretically you do not need to go to the Sorbonne, do you?

The analogy may be extreme, but you should be able to draw from the professor's experience and education and bypass those steps. View everyone as an equal but seek to better yourself by building upon what you learn from them. This is not being selfish since others should do the same with you.

For these reasons, students should ask about their professors' education (albeit in private perhaps), their studies, their findings, as well as their views on current affairs. If the teacher and pupil both do their respective job, then your knowledge base should have expanded enough to reflect (although obviously not equate) what the professor has learned in his or her life.

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