Ancient Studies

There is nothing like learning and one never knows enough. I took a couple of university courses lately and the class was filled with elders who not only didn't look that way, they didn't think that way. Some had  degrees, Masters Degrees and others were PHDs but no one pulled ranks. We were all at the age where we knew that letters behind a name didn't satisy. Why? The knowledge pit is endlessly deep and one yearns to fall into it and keep on falling. Only the most stupid and shallow, think they know it all. A lifetime isn't long enough. After an "education" which allows for only a taste and not a whole meal of learning, there are more and more questions to answer: the why, not the who nor the what nor the where or even the how, but continuously, the why. The everpresent why that will likely never be answered remains until the ends of time and that is precisely what drives man into discovery and invention and creativity.  Those who sat around me in the classroom were humble folk who after the age of "retirement" knew well that a lifetime isn't long enough for complete knowledge. But they also knew that questions have to be answered and the thirst for their answers doesn't die in one lifetime. We have to continue striving to hope to quench the need to find out more about our existence and our place in it. Each new discovery leads only to more questions and thus to more exploration and invention. Man is never satisfied. That old grasp always exceeds the reach!