90-year-old woman earns Ph.D., proves you're never too old to learn
 

90-year-old woman earns Ph.D., proves you're never too old to learn
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You're never too old to go back to school. Just ask Colette Bourlier, a 90-year-old French woman who just earned her Ph.D

Bourlier, who turns 91 in two weeks, was awarded her doctorate in Geography after working on her thesis for the last 30 years at the University of Franche-Comte in Besancon, eastern France. She began working on it after she retired in 1983, the Associated Foreign Press reported

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“It took a bit of time to write because I took breaks,” Bourlier said of her 400-page thesis, some of which was handwritten Read more...

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