LEV772 R. Me'ir said: Do not look at the jug but at what is in it: There can be a new jug filled with old wine, and an old one without even new wine in it. Pirkei Avot, Perek IV, mishnah 27. It is true that the Torah commands us to respect the aged [this verse] But, R. Me'ir indicates, this imposes no hard and fast rule on us to turn only to the old for wisdom, as though they possessed it exclusively. There is no monopoly on sound counsel, and we would do well to be receptive to it from whatever quarter it comes. As one Sage passionately exclaimed, "Happy, fortunate is the generation in which the elders listen to the younger ones." (T.B. Rosh Hashanah 25b).