The biggest thing I've learned as I've got older is...

[Whateverist]

Ask people the biggest thing they've learned as they've got older and they'll start spouting all sorts of philosophical mumbo jumbo. Nothing academic. 
In other words, we don't need no school. 

Well said.  I never liked school.  I prefer to be an autodidact.

That would have been great but I was never limber enough to reach it.  Fortunately there have been a few kind women in my life and a few of those with real talent.