About being a student

Being a student is not a job, but a state of mind. Being a student presumes the will to learn, the will to improve and the will to share.

Being a professor is not a job, but a state of mind. Being a professor presumes the will to learn, the will to improve and the will to share.

The difference between a professor and a student is given by experience. Experience comes in time. A professor is but a particular kind of student.

A university represents a space where students gather. It represents the space that helps students be students.


Please look around you and count the labels that say: "I am a student", "I am a professor", "I am an university". Now, please look beyond those labels and count how many mean: "I want to learn", "I want to improve", "I want to share", or "I am a place where students gather".

The discrepancy can be due to two reasons: either my story is wrong or the labels are misplaced. I, for one, refuse to believe that the story is wrong.

Posted by Tudor Girba at 27 October 2007, 6:42 am with tags learning, teaching link