In the "old days", it was poor taste for the young to opine too much about things. You wouldn't publish your magnum opus until later in life. The point is, of

In the "old days", it was poor taste for the young to opine too much about things. You wouldn't publish your magnum opus until later in life. The point is, of course, that age is a necessary, but insufficient condition for wisdom. I know of philosophers who claimed to only grasp their subject matter in their 50s.