I\u2019ve changed the title of my blog just a little bit. Instead of \u201cThe Ramblings of An Eternal Student\u201d, it is now \u201cThe Ramblings of An Eternal Student of\/for Life<\/i>\u201d. What\u2019s the difference? Well, there shouldn\u2019t really be any. However, over the past few years there has been a proliferation of blogs by young folk (of course) who have been in school for a while and think they\u2019ve earned the title \u201ceternal student\u201d. Just do a Google on \u2018eternal student\u2019 and you\u2019ll see what I mean . . . <\/p>\n
What a load of balderdash! You young folk have little idea what the word \u201ceternal\u201d implies. Neither do we old folk, but we\u2019ve spent a lot more time pondering it. And if you\u2019ve really got the stuff to be a true \u201ceternal student\u201d, then you will too. If you hit the age of 35, 45, 55, etc. and you\u2019re out there struggling in the real world, but you still have something inside that draws you to books and articles so as to learn new things; and if you\u2019re watching PBS shows and listening to Teaching Company lectures or taking on-line courses so as to better understand what you’ve seen and felt over the years \u2013 well, maybe then you\u2019re a real E.S. But as to you people in your early 20\u2019s just trying to stay out of the working world<\/a> for a few more years, well . . . then fine, call yourself an \u201ceternal student\u201d. But you\u2019re not an eternal student of and for life<\/b>, as in \u201creal life\u201d. Not yet, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve changed the title of my blog just a little bit. Instead of \u201cThe Ramblings of An Eternal Student\u201d, it is now \u201cThe Ramblings of An Eternal Student of\/for Life\u201d. What\u2019s the difference? Well, there shouldn\u2019t really be any. However, over the past few years there has been a proliferation of blogs by young folk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5066,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/5066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}