Once Chairman Mao said one is never too old to learn, his famous words inspire people to keep learning all their lives. Since we are small, we study at school, then we have to learn until we are at college, after graduate from college, we finish our education in the school.Then the new stage comes, we start to work, making money, learning knowledge seems unnecessary to us. This is totally wrong, we learn all the time, even we are out of school, we have lessons from life. Life is a big topic, we have to learn it all the time. We have to deal with trouble, learning to make friends and accept fail. All these things we will not learn at school, we have to learn by ourselves, we are students and teachers. If you think you finish learning after school, you are narrow minded.

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　　毛主席曾经说过“一个人要活到老学到老”，他的著名话语激励着人们终身学习。当我们还小的时候，我们在学校学习，然后直到大学前，我们都要学习，大学毕业后，我们完成了在学校的学习。然后新的阶段到来，我们开始工作，挣钱，学习知识似乎不必要了。这是完全错误的，我们一直学习，即使不在学校，我们学习生活。生活是一个大主题，我们不得不一直学习。我们要处理麻烦，学着交朋友和接受失败。所有的这些东西我们都不会在学校学到，我们必须自己学习，即是学生也是老师。如果你觉得你出了学校后就完成了学习，你的思想就很狭隘了。

　　she said, hi, handsome. my name is rose. im eighty-seven years old. can i give you a hug?

　　i laughed and enthusiastically responded, of course you may! and she gave me a giant squeeze.2

　　why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?3 i asked.

　　she jokingly replied, im here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel.

　　no seriously, i asked. i was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

　　i always dreamed of having a college education and now im getting one ! she told me.

　　after class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.4 we became instant friends. every day for the net three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. i was always mesmerized5 listening to this time machine6 as she shared her wisdom and eperience with me.

　　over the course of the school year, rose became a campus icon7 and easily made friends wherever she went. she loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students.8 she was living it up.9

　　at the end of the semester we invited rose to speak at our football banquet and ill never forget what she taught us. she was introduced and stepped up to the podium.10 as she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three-by-five cards11 on the floor. frustrated and a bit embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, im sorry im so jittery.12 i gave up beer for lent and this whiskey is killing me!13 ill never get my speech back in order to let me just tell you what i know. as we laughed, she cleared her throat and began:

　　we do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. there are only four secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success.

　　you have to laugh and find humor each and every day.

　　youve got to have a dream. when you lose your dreams, you die. we have so many people walking around who are dead and they dont even know it!

　　there is a giant difference between growing older and growing up. if you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and dont do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. if i am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything i will turn eighty-eight. anybody can grow older. that doesnt take any talent or ability.14 the idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change.

　　have no regrets. the elderly usually dont have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. the only people who fear death are those with regrets.

　　she concluded her speech by courageously singing the rose. she challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.15

　　at years end, rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. one week after graduation rose died peacefully in her sleep. over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to16 the wonderful woman who taught by eample that its never too late to be all you can possibly be.