It is an extended family providing the caring, belonging, and deep association that links family members with the world outside of it. It provides the diverse and varied human interactions that makes life not only possble but enjoyable. Life-Long is the growing necessity of the Information Age. We no longer can learn knowledge and skills that will last a life-time. Times change far too rapidlly.
Graduation is a concept of the past.
Unlike schools, learning centers of the future can not graduate their members in the sense of closing the doors to the facilities and services for learning. They must provide continuing learning opportunities. Learning is not something a superior authority does to a lesser one. Learning is an act of self-volition. It is a self-actuated process of creating skills, discovering knowledge, and satisfying one's own natural curiosity.