One day a student went to see his teacher. He had been given an important position now and was coming to say goodbye. The teacher asked how he would get along with the high officials. The student said"I will be all right. I have prepared 100 hundred hats, one for each official I meet. I am sure I will succeed." The teacher was very angry on hearing this. "What! " He cried," Is this what 10 years of my teaching has made of you? Nothing but a flatterer?" "Excuse me, honored master," the student rose to his feet and apologized hurriedly. "But you have been absorbed in your studies and don't know how vulgar the world has come to be. There are few men in the world who are above disliking flattering like you." "There's something in what you said. "The teacher nodded. So they separated in a friendly way, with one of the student's high hats sold. 1.The student went to see his teacher because----