Nick Carbone
Times Reporter
Taken from Time News Feed
Never Too Old: 78-Year-Old Starts First Grade in Bulgaria
Apostol Stoyanov will hand in homework, take tests, and answer
questions in class, just like the rest of the students. No matter that
he's old enough to be his classmates' grandfather.
As students across the world head back to school, the 6-year-olds in
one
Bulgarian school will notice a student who doesn't quite fit in.
That's because Stoyanov, 78, will be joining them in the classroom – as a
new student.
Stoyanov has decided to get an education, telling state news agency
BTA that he never had the opportunity when he was young, due to the
distance and cost of education. He notes
that he never learned to read or write, but “his biggest dream is to be
literate.” The lifelong laborer, who lives alone, explains he's ready
for a life in the classroom.
Stoyanov is enrolled alongside 430 other first graders in Gabrovo,
studying primarily on his own but attending school to take quizzes and
submit classwork. His biggest fear – and he's surely not alone here – is
math, but plans to seek extra help with that subject.
He's the real-life Billy Madison – except he's actually quite eager to learn.
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