Age is Just a Number: Meet 73-Year-Old Yan Hongsen, the Epitome of Lifelong Learning

▲Yangming Xiaotong University’s “Gong College” invited Professor Yan Hongsen to give a lecture on “The Retirement Career I Choose” on October 24. You are welcome to listen to Yan Hongsen’s heartwarming stories and valuable experiences and embark on a journey. Lifelong learning and a dynamic life together! (Photo/Courtesy of Yangming Xiaotong University)

[ফোকাস টাইমস/প্রতিবেদক লুও ওয়েইঝো]The “Gong Academy” organized and planned by the Health, Longevity and Aging Research Center of Yangming Jiaotong University will invite Professor Yan Hongsen to give a lecture on “The Retirement Life I Choose” on October 24. At the age of 70, Yan Hongsen chose to return to the Chinese Department of Tunghai University to become a “senior college student“, winning the book prize at the age of 72. Consolidating among young students, his enthusiasm for learning shows that it never gets old.

▲Yangming Xiaotong University’s “Gong College” invited Professor Yan Hongsen to give a lecture on “The Retirement Career I Choose” on October 24. You are welcome to listen to Yan Hongsen’s heartwarming stories and valuable experiences and embark on a journey. Lifelong learning and a dynamic life together! (Photo/Courtesy of Yangming Xiaotong University)

If you keep studying, you’ll keep creating problems and using your brain! Yan Hongsen, 73, a father, grandfather, honorary professor of mechanical engineering department of Chengdu University and former president of Dai University, has returned to study in the Chinese department of Tunghai University in the past two years, everyone calls him “senior college student”, it can be called a senior. Lifelong learning standards for citizens. Yan Hongsen did not go to college to realize his dream and become a college student again, but mainly to find his own retirement platform! After hearing many cases of retirement syndrome, Yan Hongsen decided to use “being a college student” as the platform of his retirement life. He gradually studied basic undergraduate subjects and fixed some jobs without being too relaxed. Therefore, Yangming Jiaotong University’s “Gong College” specially invited Yan Hongsen to give a lecture on “My Choice for Retirement Career”, hoping that this lecture will spark more thinking and innovation in lifelong learning with the audience!

Pay homage to history and journey to the future! “Gong College” located in the Boai Campus of Yangming Jiaotong University is sponsored by the Health, Longevity and Aging Research Center of Yangming Jiaotong University and integrates the School of Electrical Engineering, School of Information, Humanities Center, Boa Bookstore, School of Medicine. , School of Pharmacy, and School of Nursing, School of Biomedical Engineering Department of Physical Therapy and Assistive Technology and Taiwan Hsinchu Science Park Industry-Academic Training Association It was first unboxed. And open at the senior health industry expo, which immediately attracted the attention of many senior friends.

Yangming Xiaotong University’s “Gong Academy” combines technology, humanities and medicine to bring various programs combining health and happiness, and provides “Miuxia Mantian”, a second life of new learning and re-learning, and invites senior friends to come. “Tribute” campus life to create a fun future together! The “Gong Academy” team combines history and future, alumni and teachers and students, technology and humanities, longevity and health, learning and contribution with a soft heart, and hopes to take an important step in changing the trajectory of Taiwan’s aging population.

█ Dr. Ian Hongsen gave a lecture on “The Retirement Career I Choose”.
◆ Date and Time: Thursday, October 24, 2024, 14:00 to 16:00 pm
◆ Location: International Conference Hall, 1st Floor, Power Station, Yangming Xiaotong University (Guangfu Campus)
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