The Ideal Student

When I think of the ideal student, I think of someone who is smart, but doesn't completely rely on their abilities. I think of someone who may get frustrated from time to time, but won't stop working until they understand the concept or figure out the problem. Many people quit when the information gets a little too difficult to grasp, or ask others for the answer as soon as they realize they got the wrong one. If this situation arose for the ideal student, they would not stop after a few minutes of contemplating the problem, or after one wrong answer. The ideal student would think about this problem for a significant amount of time, get many different answers, and would only stop when they knew they did everything possible in order to find a solution.