The 94 year old Phyllis Turner Recently have become the world’s oldest person to earn a university masters degree! She quit school at 12 but started studying for postgraduate degree when she was 90, And now she is a Medical Science Masters Degree graduate! here’s what she said about this:
“I feel very very happy after five years of study, but sorry that I am just a little bit immobilized”
Degree supervisor Professor Maciej Henneberg said:
“Mentally she was like any other student. You couldn’t tell her thinking, her enthusiasm and her interests apart from somebody who was 25. She has a lively mind. She used to wake up at 5am in the morning and think about something, and then ring to say she wanted to check on it.“