If I exercise my memory muscle I can barely remember the days when I was a struggling student.  Yes, I did go to school, and no, it wasn't really much different from what our grand kids are facing today.  I made it through elementary, junior and senior high school, and then I took 5 years (minus two years for my mission) to become a graduate of BYU (and I have my diploma to prove it!).  There were times when I performed well, and times when I just made it through to make it through.  This morning I was deep in learning and felt like I have become a better student at this stage of my life then I was at any time during  my 'formal' student days.  You might say that that is all I have now that I am old and you might be right.  But learning is not only really important to me now, it is actually very, very edifying.  I can even say that it is really fun.  My subject lessons vary from day to day, but I believe that my 'tutor' is active in the lesson plans, and that they are designed just for me.  I also feel a bit of an urgency to learn what I am learning.  Like I am in the final semesters of my graduate work and that I need to finish my 'doctorate studies'.  It is really neat to be able to draw from so many years of experience and scripture study that comes together when I am considering the  new ideas that come to me.  I see that magnificent tapestry of truths that are so well connected.  There is such a unity and consistency of all that is good and right.  There is still much that I do not understand.  But I am able to come up with good questions and after much, much work at study and prayer and serious pondering I have been able to learn so much.  Right now most of you are just looking forward to getting out of the learning game and in to life.  But don't think that it ever really ends.  But it sure does get better.