Maybe it is true, then—the Ancient saying-—Wisdom only comes with Age.
As Communists always note——so everyone stays ignorant and hates their parents and has no respect for them-—Never listen to anyone over 30.
Conditioning to think old people are fools, is the opposite of what both Socrates and Confucius stated. Experience will produce Wisdom-—if one is willing to open their mind up to Knowledge and study. Growing in knowledge is a daily thing.
BTW, the genius of our Founding Fathers was extraordinary because of their young age——I read that somewhere. Their thinking was profound considering their young ages—Madison particularly. He was requesting the latest books of importance from Jefferson who was in Europe at the time-—anything new on political thought or philosophy. But back then, people didn’t have TV and Bread and Circuses like they do now (agitprop) to take them away from acquiring knowledge.
Note: The very LATE date of entering a “school”. Independent thinkers do NOT go to an indoctrination center before the Age of Reason-—that was Dewey’s influence (Fabian Socialist) who wanted to shape the “plastic minds” of the masses and get them before their Christian Foundation was laid and away from the influence of loving parents-—so they are emotional cripples and self-conscious about everything.
Look at Abe Lincoln-—how easily he was swayed by “group think”-—HA! No school than a few weeks when he was around 8.
“Group think” is the result of the Prussian system of education the Socialists designed for Germany which was dragged to American Schools (and Russian)-—along with Marxist curricula (moral relativism) by Dewey.
If it was an epiphany that Woody had-—it is a true belief in God. That is all which will make him Wise.
I remember Eric Hoffer saying that given the very high mortality rate, poor nutrition, poor medical care, etc. ... people in ancient times (right up to the 19th century, when medicine improved) had a very short life expectancy. Forty years old was extreme old age. He said ‘history was made by juvenile delinquents’.