Showing posts with label Oldest First-Year Student. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oldest First-Year Student. Show all posts

Monday, September 5, 2011

World's Oldest First-Year Student


New primary-school pupil Ma Xiuxian, aged 102, has proven you're never too old to learn after becoming the world's oldest first-year pupil. Ma started work in a cotton mill at the age of 13 and never got the chance to go to school as a child. She says taking her place at her desk in the Grade One class at Weshan Road Elementary School in China was a dream come true. The school apparently offered her a place in the elementary class after reading about her education ambitions in a local newspaper. (Link | Via)