Sixteen point formula to become an ideal student by Swami Vivekananda

1.    RESPECT: Respect your parents, your teachers and your elders.

2.    LOVE: Love your country, your culture and your ancestors.

3.    SERVICE: Serve the poor, the illiterate and the diseased

4.    SELF-DISCIPLINE: Discipline your body, your senses and your mind.

5.    SELF-CONTROL: Control your words, your thoughts and your actions.

6.    FAITH: Have faith in yourself, in others and in God.

7.    DISCRIMINATION: Discriminate between good and bad, real and unreal and vice and virtue.

8.    CONCENTRATION: Concentrate whole-heartedly while studying, working, playing or praying.

9.    TRUTHFULNESS: Be truthful in words, thoughts and actions.

10. HARD WORK: Work hard to acquire knowledge, skills and wisdom.

11. STRENGTH: Be strong physically, mentally, intellectually, morally and spiritually.

12. CONVICTION: Have conviction in the power of goodness, purity and honesty.

13. DEVOTION: Have devotion for duty, scriptures, holy people and God.

14. HABITS: Cultivate regular habits of prayer, meditation and reading inspiring and strengthening literature.

15. SAME-SIGHTEDNESS: Feel the presence of the Divine in all beings and treat them with the same standard as you treat yourself.

16. FIRM DETERMINATION: Have firm determination and strong will-power to cultivate good habits in order to achieve permanent happiness, peace, success and fulfilment in life.