Lifelong learning autobiography

the article presents the description of educational experience of an ordinary person, the Netherlands citizen. The author lays emphasis on the successive stages of his personal and professional development, related to the necessity of making the individual choice of the ways to continue his education. In this connection the author considers the multiple changes of one form of learning (self study) by another as the manifestation of educational continuity. Traveling down the memory line the author traces the circumstances of transition from one type of learning to another and gives the retrospective emotional evaluation of external and internal causes, principal motives and consequences of his choices, and the quality of acquired education. Presented in the form of autobiographical essay the factual material is personalized, real and interesting by its commonness, behind which one may see a concrete person realization of the objective need for the continuation of education at any age. The accumulation and systematization of similar humanitarian descriptions might serve as a basis for further scientific generalizations in the sphere of studying the phenomenon of educational continuity. The information offered by the author allows getting an idea about historically developed variability of the forms of main and professional education in Holland.