People often debate whether or not they learn more from peers than the olds. some young people belive that they learn more from their peers. But I disagree with their thoughts. Even thought the young get used to the latest thing, I believe that people still learn more from elders for the sake of their lots of experience and comprehensive understanding of life.
The first reason why I belive like that is that the elders have accmulated many kinds of experience for their longer life than young people and therefore are able to provide helpful assistance to young people.
While the older people have lived, they have met many barriers and solve them in their career and life and they have deveoloped their know-how, skills. To take a personal example, when I was a freshman in an university, everything was strange for me and I did not know what to do first and how to do. even my peers did not know well. So we asked the senior about everything we did not know. The senior was already knowing about our concern and told us what we have to do first and guide us to adapt to university well. Thanks to him we were able to attend the university easily.
Moreover, since older people have lived loger than young people and are mature and wisdom, they have a much more comprehensive understanding of life as well as provide helpful and precious counsel to young people. For example, I was dicouraged after breaking up with my ex-girl friend. Feeling pity about my situation, my parents counseled my worry and told me how to handle and overcome depression. Fianlly their efforts worked. This is because they had already experienced many things like my case and have a comprehensive understanding of life.
In conclusion, people learn more from older people than peer for the reason of they have more experience and understanding of life. In other word, the old are sufficiently valuable to respenct and essence of wisdom in many aspects of life.
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