When he arrived in England, Yinan Wang could only speak a few words of English. ‘At first I was very lonely ,’he recalls. ‘I couldn’t speak to anyone, so I couldn’t make friends.’ However, his teachers could see that he was very intelligent. In fact, he was a genius. He was especially good at mathematics and science.
Two years later, Yinan Wang went to Oxford University to study science. At the age of 14, he was one of the youngest students to study at this famous university. However, his teachers thought he would have no problems. He had special classes in English at school, and was fluent by the age of 14. He also got top marks in all his maths exams.
Yinan Wang was not the first child to go to Oxford University. Ruth Lawrence was only 13 when she to Oxford to study mathematics. However, are young teenagers really nature enough for university? Many universities do not take students below the age of 17 or 18. People say they cannot enjoy university life. Other people disagree and say that very clever children show not wait