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في لحظة واحدة، قرر ان ينتقل من التسول الى المقاعد الجامعية !
Cambridge University accepted 52-year-old Jeff Edwards, who had never completed his university studies but had always loved reading..
في هذا السياق، ذكرت صحيفة “الغارديان”، أن جيف إدواردز الذي أمضى معظم حياته متسولا، جعل جامعة كامبردج تقبله طالبا في كلية الآداب،
وذلك بفضل ولعه الكبير بالمطالعة !
في طفولته، قرأ إدواردز كتاب شكسبير “تاجر البندقية” و”الكريزاليد” لجون أونديم وغيرها، لكنها لم تؤثر في مستوى دراسته. فكانت علاماته متدنية.
كما ان والديه كانا فقيرين، ليس لديهما اي قدرة مادية لمساعدته في ممتابعة دراسته الجامعية.
Faced with poverty and eventually homelessness, reading was the only way out he could find. He would regularly sell newspapers, earning barely enough to get by.
لسد جوعه وضمان قدرته على استعارة الكتب من مكتبة الجامعة.
After finishing high school, he worked for a while on farms in Kent and Gloucestershire. He would go weeks without shelter. At one point, he decided to
go to university.
Edwards spent his days in the university library. As he put it, books became a way to escape the painful reality of his life. After that, he decided to enroll
Through intensive programs for seniors, which lasted three years at 40 hours per week. Finally, he joined the senior cohort as a student enrolled at the university..
