Students Forever.
Ex-Governor Haines of Maine, after leaving the governor's chair, returned to college. He graduated in 1876 from the University of Maine, but, after his governorship, returned to take a graduate course. For years he had been a trustee of the university and president of the alumni association; then he became for a second time a student.
That is the way with all wise men—they are students forever. Few return to college in person, but all are there in spirit every day of their lives. They never feel that they "know it all." On the contrary, their humility and their sense of ignorance grow as their knowledge increases. The more they know, the more eager are they for deeper understanding.
Books, lectures, substantial study—if a man has got beyond these his education is "finished" indeed, and his progress is finished at that same point.