"Live and learn"
Every moment of a human life is devoted to the education in the direct or indirect meaning of this word. The process starts from the very birth. A child uses to learn a mom's voice, moving, focusing on the things etc. When a child starts a social life, he goes to school, learns how to act in a collective, manage with knowledge, develop his personality. And here the most interesting events start! The educational process makes a person change his own vision of the events, form different points of view, fight for own way of thinking, so, the process becomes more interesting and exciting.
The forms of the education are different too. But the most important elements of the educational process are its content and quality that are embodied in the result of it. Personal result could be different. Perhaps having a diploma in a frame is a highest purpose; maybe a person could find another application of it. In some cases it is not something a person needs in a life. In general, in a modern society it is prestigious to be an educated and intelligent person. Anyway sometimes these notions are not connected with each other in any way.
As it is used to think, it is not late to start the education, even if you are in the age of eighteen. For example, not long time ago an old woman in Russia decided to continue her education and get a new degree in the science. As for me, it seems to be a very positive event in a life, but at the same time it is a good pattern to the youth. At least just imagine the following image. An old woman frames her diploma on the wall and shows her grandchildren, telling "A nice souvenir, yeh?".
To be serious, the education gives a person an opportunity to occupy a good social position in a society, find a well-paid job, raise the children, move abroad, find a good husband at least.
There is every reason to guess that the education is not only the studying at school, in the university or reading the books in the library. In the most cases the best and most effective education is connected with a real life, its peculiarities and specific features. It develops in the stream of the everyday changes, but on the traditional base. Old and new. Traditional and new-age. Live and learn every day of a life.