I just want to be a student forever....?

You can't accomplish anything if you remain a student forever. At some point you have to move on and actually do something productive with your education. But you could become a teacher or university professor and have a profound influence on others.

My daughter just loves the academic life too.

She is now getting her PhD in civil engineering and has already been offered a tenure track position at a state university.

She also has consulting firms and agencies in Washington DC that want her. So she is trying how to figure out how to combine all 3.

But I expect her to end up in academia in the long run.

To answer your question, get a PhD in the sciences, become a post doc, move up to assistant professor them professor. You can stay in school all your life.

So...you don't want to have to actually be an adult and work for a living, eh?

If you want to be a perpetual student, then you'll need an endless supply of money to support yourself during your endless unemployment.

You can have a productive career and still always be learning - you don't need to be in a "prestigious school" to do it, or even in any school at all.

keep reading books!
attend classes and seminars!
teach somebody!
I am so glad that people like you exist!