80-Year-Old Graduates from College, Proving It’s Never Too Late to Learn

An 80-year-old graduated from college and has proven that it’s never too late to learn. The elderly gentleman participated in the graduation ceremonies, where he walked across the stage and picked up his diploma. Watch the short but heartwarming clip to see the man graduate from college and fulfill his promise.

We all get a little older with every passing day, hour, minute and second.  As much as people may try to slow down and even reverse time, it stops for no one. So, because time continually marches forward, aging is a process that impacts everyone.

Since aging can’t be stopped or avoided, we have two options. We can either fret and worry about aging and allow it to keep us from enjoying the time God has given us. Or we can use our time on this Earth and make the most of it. Time is our most precious commodity, and once it’s gone, we’ll never get it back. We won’t be able to recover a single second of lost time.

A clip posted on YouTube shows an elderly gentleman, an 80-year-old man, who decided to use the time he’d been given for something good and worthwhile. Linwood Riddick demonstrated that no one is too old to learn something new. He graduated from South Carolina State University. That special, heartwarming and tear-jerking moment was the fulfillment of a promise he had made to himself.

The video mentions that Linwood was forced to put his educational aspirations on hold because of his military service and because of segregation. But he persevered, saw it through, walked across that stage and became a college graduate!

He looks as if he’s about to tear up! Linwood can serve as an inspiration to others, proving that we are never too old to learn something new.

Ecclesiastes 7:12 “Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.”