John Adesoye at his graduation ceremony – credit, UWE Bristol
In a story that shows how it’s never too late to learn, a man in the UK has graduated from nursing school at 64.
His education actually saw the Nigerian immigrant, who is a father of 5, studying alongside his son, who was attending the very same university.
John Adesoye graduated with a degree in nursing from the University of West England after completing a 2-year nurse associate program, and a 2 year nurse apprenticeship program, at the National Health Services Foundation Trust in Bristol.
John grew up in a poor farming family in Nigeria and developed a keen interest in electronics, having been fascinated as a child with how his family’s radio worked. He later lived in Greece, working as an electronics technician and servicing electronic equipment, and then moved to the UK.
The father-of-5, who now lives in Bristol, has secured a nursing role at Southmead Hospital where he had completed his apprenticeship.
“I didn’t think I’d ever go to university, to be honest. But I have passion for learning,” Mr. Adesoye said in a press release. “Even when I was small, I was so curious. When I got the chance to go to university, I didn’t take it for granted—I followed it with my heart.”
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Though most of his degree was completed at the local Southmead Hospital, a strange production of fate saw him spend 1 day of every week studying on campus alongside none other than his very own son Daniel, who was studying for a degree in creative music technology.
He remarked that working among a cohort of young students in turn made him feel young again, whether seeing his own son at university had the same effect, however, he didn’t say.
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“Don’t listen to people who say you’re too old for university,” said Adesoye. “If I can do it, others can too. People are more brilliant than they think and they’re stronger than they think.”
John isn’t the first to graduate in his golden years; GNN has reported on the topic often enough to know that the maxim “it’s never too late to learn” is true at 65, or 105.
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