<p>“Not to be a Negative Nancy, but do you think this lady’s story – and it is certainly impressive and inspiring – sends the message that people should pursue education for the sake of education?”</p>
<p>I don’t see any problem with pursuing education for the sake of education especially when you can afford it. I think her story sends a message to seniors that it’s never too old to have the pleasure of being a college student. </p>
<p>I don’t think that people in their teens and twenties are likely to use her as a role model unless they decide to think it’s OK to delay getting an education until they are old. </p>
<p>I love this:</p>
<p>"efore she received her undergraduate diploma in 2007, reporters asked her where she’d go from there.</p>
<p>Maybe, Ochs said, she’d be a storyteller on a cruise ship.</p>
<p>She was joking.</p>
<p>Then a cruise line called and sent her and her granddaughter, who graduated from Fort Hays with her, on a cruise in the Caribbean - where Ochs told stories of her life to vacationers.</p>
<p>“I tell people: ‘Eat your carrots. Eat your spinach. The 90s are great,’” she said with a laugh.</p>
<p>Now that she has her master’s (in liberal studies with a history concentration), what’s next?</p>
<p>“Oh, you won’t believe it,” Ochs said. “I’ve enrolled in a summer class - and a couple classes for the fall.”"</p>