Walking through the Stages of Life: the Adult Years (3)

Charles Spurgeon once wrote, “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.” Upon the older generation is set a heavy responsibility.  Inevitably, a mature father, mother, grandfather, or grandmother has more knowledge than a child or teenager.  But knowledge can be dangerous, as Spurgeon indicates....