Lifelong Learning
The concept of ‘continuous personal development’ through student-centered (self-actualized) learning. Lifelong learners demonstrate:

• the ability to accept themselves as well as others
• spontaneous but ethical behavior
• a strong focus on problems outside themselves
• the ability to capitalize on the qualities of detachment and solitude
• independent stability in the face of hard knocks
• freshness of appreciation
• deep feelings of identification, sympathy, and affection for humankind
• profound interpersonal relationships
• a democratic character structure
• strong ethics with definite moral standards
• philosophical, unhostile sense of humor
• a special kind of creativeness
• the ability to function independently as a part of the growing tip of humanity