Wisdom

Image of Socrates' school of learning from http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/SA.html

What I see in class all the time, with my classmates being mostly Millennials, is that they don't listen to the teacher's advise and it seems that they believe that technology will save them in the end. They value technology over wisdom. We are "knowledge workers" but wisdom comes from experience and understanding the experiences. I'm not knocking the Millennials for their innovation, creativity, and energy. But they seem too impatient to absorb the importance of the verbalization's from their teachers. I attend (Pratt Graduate program for Graphic Design) a trade school, sure, but it should be more a place of wisdom where those of experience and understanding impart value to Knowledge Seekers!

In a pantopicon blog, they discuss the tribal society, where the elders were respected for their wisdom. Which is what photographer and director Andrew Zuckerman has done in The wisdom project. Interviews with wise people about wisdom.
http://www.pantopicon.be/blog/2009/03/10/the-wisdom-project/