He was never hesitant about what field he wanted to pursue, he just loved learning new things. Luis Francisco Ponce de León Jiménez, at 80, is Spain's oldest university student – and continues to take courses.
The curriculum includes ten degrees in fields such as communications engineering, physics, oriental studies, economic and business sciences, philosophy and literature. He currently studies International Relations at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
This was on Wednesday in an interview with the Spanish television channel TelemadridLewis said that he was happy to study and that when he entered university for the first time, he studied engineering and physics at the same time.
“I finished it in 1968, the same year I got married,” he said. The date also coincides with the time of Franco's dictatorship, which was in effect in this country between 1939 and 1975.
In addition to the ten degrees, the university student has also received several accolades over the years, including best student, and has passed his interest in studying to his children Mercedes and Louis, who is a professor of music education at the university where his father teaches. .
During the interview with the same channel, Lewis said that he always loves reading and learning about new cultures, an interest that he exploited when he worked abroad for 40 years at the computer company IBM.
“I've been to every continent except Africa, unfortunately. I worked in London, Sweden and also spent four years in the United States, which allowed me to get to know California and Chicago.”
He added that amid all this, he still finds time to learn Mandarin, Japanese and Arabic.
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