Education as a lifelong process is Important
Every person is born to learn. To learn or to get education is not a temporary matter. It is a lifelong process. As long as you are breathing, it's time for you to learn. 
Why is education so important during our life time? Take me myself for example. When I was a little boy, there was not so many terms such as MP3, bio-technology and so forth. But today, they are the essencial knowledge for every high educated person. So, I have to learn, to get education and to know what they mean and what they bring.
You have to learn whenever you come across a new-born stuff, because every day, every minute, your former knowledge is getting out of time.
It is not necessarily for every person to learn in the classroom. They can get education from the life. Thomas Edison, whose formal education is only two years, learned a lot from his life. All his life, he kept on learning and invented so many great things.
When you are no longer a student learning in the classroom, you have to learn from the life. So, next time, when someone said to you "How can I get education at such an old age?" you can tell him, "The classroom is not the only place to get education. Life itself is a classroom for people of all ages."
So, no matter how old you are, keep on learning, because, education is a lifelong process.
