From the archives - Figuring out father may have been right

Too often youth is reluctant to learn from their parents:

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
-Charles Wadsworth
(I wish I knew if the source was this Charles Wadsworth, or this Charles Wadsworth, or another Charles Wadsworth.)


This reminds me of Mark Twain's line:

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."


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