Two 66-year-old Men Graduate from Sun Yat-sen University
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Transtlate Two 66-year-old men graduated this summer from Sun Yat-sen University, a well-known university in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong Province, Guangzhou media reported.
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Huang Daren (L), president of the Sun Yat-sen University passes a certificate of postgraduate degree for Li Yiquan |
Li Yiquan (李奕权) , a Chinese-Singaporean, earned a postgraduate degree in software engineering, while Ang Toon Aun (洪敦安), a Chinese-Malaysian, earned a bachelor's degree with a major in Chinese as a foreign language.
Li, a retired engineer, now lives in Hong Kong. Coincidently, Li's daughter also received a postgraduate degree this year, but from a British university. His daughter participated in his graduation ceremony in Guangzhou.
Li said he had a special feeling for Sun Yat-sen University because his parents and brother graduated from there.
It wasn't easy for Li to return to school while in his 60s, he said. He failed math exams several times after beginning classes, even though he had a good foundation in math; he graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University majoring in physics 40 years ago and worked as an engineer before retiring. "I had to make up for my fading memory with hard work," said Li.
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Ang Toon Aun, 66, poses with his bachelor's degree |
Aun's wife died of cancer in 2004 and he was tired of his business career, so he decided to study. He began to study Chinese at the university and passed level 9, the highest level of the Chinese Proficiency Test, within three years, which surprised his teacher, he said.
"There's nothing in the world that makes me happier than study," said Aun. Aun said many old people in Malaysia were encouraged to keep studying after retirement, but few of them choose to study on campus for a degree as he did.
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