To come here as a student is to be given a wonderful opportunity and a privilege.
But mostly, he wanted his listeners to know that he came as a student.
"He came in not as a great student," said Boyle.
Sastri came to Muthanaval as a student at the age of seven.
A native of Iran whose parents still live there, he first came to Britain as a student in 1975.
After finishing high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student.
The kingpin is usually a well-established man, who came to the country as a student in 1980s.
"I came to them as a student and a teacher; they welcomed me as a guest."
So he came to Talbothays at twenty-six, as a student.
He had come as a student of farming to this dairy, thinking he would be here only a short time.