Lifelong learning is an attitude embraced by people who find life continually interesting and engaging and who welcome opportunities to learn whether they are 7 years old or 70. In later life, perhaps in retirement, lifelong learners are people who have developed such a penchant for learning that they simply can’t stop; the habit has served them too well. They search their communities for comrades and ways to satisfy their desire to know, to understand, to appreciate. They enroll in classes, take up new hobbies, attend lectures, travel, read and discuss. Sometimes they band together to start a lifelong learning program in their city. There are currently hundreds of successful lifelong learning programs throughout the United States and Europe, many associated with colleges and universities. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is one, and it is there that the inspiration for OLÉ! was born.