I'm commonly found where education abounds. When you're younger I'm easy, taking little time to do. As you grow I may take hours, days, or weeks.

In the kitchen, I play, a tool for the task, I dance through the batter, a quicksilver mask.

You may register for me, you may inherit me. You may steal me, you may buy me. I’m here to perform a job for you and while you will wear me, you’ll never wear me out but you will likely wear me thin.

Babbling beggar? Flower in a square? Bend to my mouth, I spit in the air.

The first half of me is a group of musicians, The second half of me tells us how long something has been around. Put them together and I am the stopper of flowing fluid.