“Age old wisdom” really pisses me off. Understand what the most intelligent people in history understood: Plato, Hesse, Gautama–everyone must learn for themselves. Wisdom cannot be passed down from one person to another. Knowledge can. Schools, teachers, educators, mentors, they can be guides, and are in fact very important, but they can’t be anything more than that. They can merely pass down information, you must learn what to do with it.
Whoever wrote that is not “wise” insofar as he believes that anyone who follows these guidelines will become wise himself. As “guiding information” it’s not anything great either–it’s merely some guy writing down his thoughts thinking that they are wisdom, thinking that this is the way to live. Bullshit. Learn for yourself. Let books, PBS, teachers, schools be merely guides.