While he was a student in the school, he was very inattentive. He was never paying attention to what the teachers were teaching. But the teachers were very astonished seeing the extraordinary efficiency of the boy. And he did not prepare his lessons at home; he always read this vaiṣṇava-sāhitya - Prema-bhakti-candrikā, and other philosophical books, vaiṣṇava philosophy and Narottam Das Thakur’s prayers, songs. He never prepared his lessons but he answered all the questions there in the class. So his teachers there were astonished.