Definition: In this task, you're given an article and an answer. Your task is to generate the fill-in-the-blank question for this answer based on the given article. The blanks are always at the end of the question, and can be filled with more than one word or phrase.
Input: Article: One day a student went to see his teacher. He had been given an important position and now was coming to say goodbye to his teacher. The old man asked him how he would live among high officials. The student answered, " I will be all right. I have prepared a hundred high hats, one for each official I will meet. I am sure I will succeed." The teacher got angry on hearing this.  "What?" he cried. "Is this what ten years of my teaching has made of you? Nothing but flatterer ?" "Excuse me, honored  master," the student  rose to his feet and apologized hurriedly. "But you have always 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 flatterers like you." "There is something true in what you said," the teacher nodded, smiling with one of the student's "high hats" on. 
 Answer: he had got a fairly high position in society

The student came to say goodbye to his teacher because  _  .