Lifelong Learner Gifts

'I'm sorry Mrs. Jackson, but when you've become as excellent of a teacher as you are, you've forfeited your right to retire.'

Feed me

Information booth and what to do with it.

'When can I stop making wild guesses and start making educated guesses?'

'Perhaps I possess the kind of wisdom that only comes with age.'

'Want to hear something scary? This is the third time this week I've gotten off the bus and still remember what I've learned.'

"Who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks?"

'I'm going to learn it right this time.'

'I am doing some retraining.'

First addition, then subtraction, then multiplication, and now this! Where is it all going to end?"

Maria Montessori

"Come along, son. We are at but the beginning of a long and arduous journey."

'If i had my life to live over again... I'd make the same mistakes sooner'

'Miss, if ignorance is bliss, why do we have to spend all these years in school?'

"But if we keep up with technology out employees might develop skills that will allow them to leave."

'Finally paid off my tuition fees.'

"Can I get continuing education credit for stories that never cease to amaze me?"

Teaching kids to count is fine - teaching kids what counts is best.

'I'm going to really miss you next year, Harold.'

'Why do I have to learn how to write my name? I always pay for everything in cash.'

'One advantage to homeschooling junior is that I am now learning things I never learned when I went to school.'

'School of hard knocks.'

Student to psychology teacher: 'Are we going to learn all the states? Like the state of contentment, state of being, and state of confusion? ...'

Pursuing Success

I've decided to return to study.'

'If I didn't flunk something every once in a while, how would I ever learn anything?'

"You've spent the last 20 years in college. what made you stop hiding from the real world?"

We learn by doing

Man to man: 'Everything I needed to know, I learned in kindergarten and forgot in college.'

"Great. Now, can I see the unredacted version of your report card?"

Need Education - Too Smart for Own Good.

'At first it's just kindergarten, but then mission creep takes over and you're in college.'

"Who's leaping, loving, living to learn today?!"

"I might have to go to school forever because the more I know the more I know I don't know."

'Your father is having a tough time with his online course.'