Never too old to learn

Never too late to learn

A man who keeps pursing knowledge even in advanced age exemplifies the old saying: "It's never too late to learn".

Zou Weimin from East China's Zhejiang province began his higher education in 1960. But it came to halt after one year when he quit school and went to work to support his hard-up family. In 1977, the national college entrance exam was reinstated after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), but Zou could not apply as he had crossed the age limit.

It was not until more than 20 years later that Zou's quest for an academic degree was made possible when the age limit for national college entrance exam was lifted in 2001. In the following years, he took the exam four times and was finally admitted to a college in 2008 and obtained a bachelor's degree in 2014, more than 40 years since the first time he entered a school campus.

But it is not the end of the road for the 73-year-old, because he has now taken the postgraduate exam. We wish good luck to the old man who has always believed in knowledge.

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