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The focus of this chapter is on the elements of lifelong learning for schools. It draws on the outcomes of a project undertaken by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) that investigated ways of improving the foundations of lifelong learning in secondary schools through a review of the characteristics of school pedagogy that are oriented to lifelong learning. The project revealed that schools with an orientation to lifelong learning: focus on information literacy; emphasise certain values, dispositions and attitudes; emphasise certain skill sets beyond the ‘basic’; acknowledge the significance of self concept and self regulation in learning how to learn; and acknowledge the importance of teachers as facilitators and role models of lifelong learning. The chapter concludes by discussing some of the challenges to lifelong learning in schools.