16 point formula to become an ideal student, by Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda

Respect: Respect your parents, teachers and elders

Love: Love your country, culture and your ancestors

Service: serve the poor, the illitrate and the diseased

Self-Discipline: Discipline your body, your senses and your mind

Self-control: Control your thoughts and your actions

Faith: Have faith in yourself, others and in God

Discrimination: Discriminate between good and bad, real and unreal and vice and virtue

Concentration: Concentrate whole-heartedly while studying, working, playing and praying

Truthfulness: Be tuthful in words, houghts and actions

Hardwork: Work hard o acquire knowledge, skills and wisdom

Strength: Be strong physically, mentaly, intellectually, morally and spiritually

Conviction: Have conviction in the power of goodness, puriy and honesty

Devotion: Have devotion for duty, scriptures, holy people and God

Habits: Cultivate regular habits of prayer, meditation and reading, inspiring and strenthening literature

Same sightedness: Feel the presence of the divine in all beings and treat them with the same standard as you treat yourself

Firm determination: Have firm determination and strong will power to cultivate good habits in order to achieve permanent hapiness, peace, success and fulfillment in life