内罗毕:当肯尼亚政府去年推出义务小学教育后,一位84岁的肯尼亚老爷爷开始上小学识字,本周二肯尼亚几家日报报道了此事。他的同学平均年龄是7岁,他的30个孙子中有两个也在同一所学校,但所在年级比他高。这所学校位于肯尼亚的艾尔德雷特区,在内罗毕西北部约240公里。

　　该校的女校长简·奥宾楚对《全国日报》的记者说,学校一开始以为穆拉盖想上学是开玩笑,"于是我们就对他说今年的第一学期来吧；之后我们想看情况再说了。当他出现的时候真让我们惊奇———还穿着校服！"报纸援引她的话说道。

　　NAIROBI (Reuters) - An 84-year-old Kenyan grandfather has started primary school to learn to read, after the government introduced free primary education last year, Kenyan daily newspapers reported Tuesday. His classmates' average age is seven, and two of his thirty grandchildren attend more advanced classes in the same school in Kenya's Eldoret district, some 240 km northwest of Nairobi.

　　Headmistress Jane Obinchu told the DailyNation the school first thought Kimani Murage's interest was a joke. "So we told him to come this year in first term; then we could see about it①. It was a total surprise when he showed up -- in school uniform!" she was quoted as saying.