Could the student also be the master?

Consider it anyway you want. Just learn to bow truthfully, and everything will work out.

Kuma

Yes... The Creator channels thoughts to us and the student is also the gate keeper of the student's mind. If the student thinks that he/she is separate from the Master then the student is thinking from ego. The master is not from the ego.

One is the Shepard and the Alchemist.

Peace, love and happiness always.

Mudslinger

True, to teach is to learn, but you are learning from hearing yourself repeat the truth, not from the student. The student should never consider themselves the master, per chance to have pride and arrogance blind the path of learning through simplicity.

''A Master is nothing but a student who has teaching others and a student is nothing but a master who hasn't started teaching yet.''

- Identity Crisis

Yes, Ph.D. student can already have Master's degree

As far as human creatures are concerned...Yes...Phyrekiss.Humans will always seek knowledge . With out the guidance from a Supreme source humans are their own worst enemy. Though many try not to be their own worst enemy, anger and strife find their way to humans center of existence.

what was is, what is is, what will be is. the teacher is the student as well as the master. the only difference is what one chooses to embrace/indulge.

No

No.