Age and Wisdom

[Caius]

age --> wisdom: true?

Occidental World = No
Oriental World = Yes

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Lets not leave out American Indians yes . In fact its still so in many cultures around the world. Like I said nothing beats experience. You can learn it the hard way on your own or take an old person who has been through it countless times tell you their experiences and learn from that. It never hurts to get us old folks view on something before you act on it . In fact its usually advisable.

[Incongruous]

Considering that most of the people in ths forum are probably under 40, this is just unfair.

[Lemur]

Even scarier than the old vs. young issue is the dreaded Dunning-Kruger effect. In short, these researchers proved that those who know the least on a subject will grossly overestimate how much they know, and how competent they are. Likewise, those who know the most will generally underestimate their knowledge and competence.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

When they start hiring kids to teach us old folks in school age will no longer equal wisdom. Does anyone else think the young know more in general or are in general wiser than those older than them or for the most part arent the old wiser from experience?

[rory_20_uk]

Occidental World = No
Oriental World = Yes

And what world was more stultified than the Oriental world? big on everything being done the same, but sadly nothing really happened new.

If the young only learnt what the old taught we'd still be slogging behind wooden ploughs as thats what we'd always done.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

If the young only learnt what the old taught

Notice you had to add only. If the old didnt teach the young the young would be dead