The Eternal Student

Ruth Ann is always learning, or at least trying to, usually without benefit of classroom.
A college dropout, she thinks trying to educate today’s digital kids in last century’s school systems is nuts.

She enjoys adding to her databases, both wetware and software.

Her current education comes from the dozens of print and online publications to which she subscribes, TED talks, the occasional class or seminar, fellow humans, and other living and dead things.

Ruth Ann’s educational philosophy, like so much of her thinking, is based on something she saw on television back in the last century. In an episode of All In The Family, a developmentally disabled character portrayed by Richard Masur shows the bigot Archie Bunker a framed quotation: “Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.” 

Think about every person you encounter as your superior in some way, and see what you can learn. (Even if the lesson is “behavior to avoid.”)