They are a great resource of knowledge, wisdom and experince... That all younger constribute from. Even more, they have built the society you live in. They are the reason that you dont live in caves wink.gif, they are the reason that you live at all.
anyone in the science fields should be familiar with this phrase attributed to Newton ...
"we stand on the shoulders of giants".
we certainly learned that when I was going to school ...
and I still love reading about those amazing physisits like einstein, bohr, heisenberg,
planck, pauli, dirac, herrigel ... well, on and on they go ...
and that isn't even include more moder day heros of mine ...
like feynman and dyson ... all kinds of giants out there. ;)
and I also saw the same thing outside of school ... in real life ...
and learned so much from my grandfathers and grandmothers ...
and also father an mother ...
and I value all they so freely gave.
I've always loved sitting and talking with 'oldtimers' ...
that reminds me of another saying ...
"the more I advance in age ...
the more I discover how much more intellegent my parents become." ;)
sure ... they get set in their ways ...
but I'll take experience any day over 'knowledge'.
knowledge is about a 'head' thing ...
experience has to do with being alive. ;)