70 Year Old In First Grade

Posted by Barbara Pytel Apr 11, 2008

This is a great, heartwarming story on MSNBC. In the middle of the first grade classroom sits a 70-year-old gentleman learning how to read. He is surrounded by children young enough to be his great-grandchildren. They are learning together.

Born the son of a sharecropper, Alferd Williams worked his entire life and never had the opportunity to go to school. At 70 he decided to learn how to read. He commented that it is really nice to be able to read the signs in the stores instead of walking and walking to find items.

How does the teacher feel about this situation? She loves having him in class. And the students? They flock to him.

Alferd has shown us that it is never too late to learn how to read.

Source: MSNBC

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