Life Long Learning a Responsibility of all Teachers

I become baffled at educators/coaches today with their complacency in what the do for a profession.  When I view these types of situations I can see how many people outside of education can have a problem with tenure.  The problem is that this only reflects a one side of the profession.  As teachers everyday we ask our students to learn the material that we are presenting to them, and to continue to do this throughout their educational career. Why don't we ask this of ourselves.  Would we go to a doctor that got his degree and then never kept up with the latest procedures, or hire a lawyer who doesn't know the latest precedents, of course not but we expect parents to be happy sending their kids to us for an education when we are using techniques form the stone age. I understand furthering degrees can be costly, but that is not the only was to perform life long learning.  There are numerous ways to gather new information and better yourself as a teacher/coach/person.  Online journals, e-learning courses that are free, even collaboration with other educators that use different techniques from you or have a larger base of understanding about things that you may struggle in.  There are many ways to practice what we preach to our students, which is to never stop learning.  After all we owe it to our students to provide them with mot only the best possible education, but best possible educators as well.