Thank you Camilla Cavendish for, yet again, another common sense article, this time on the age taboo (Opinion, FT Weekend, April 23).
Former Chrysler boss Lee Iacocca was certainly right, there are 40-year-olds who act like 80 and vice versa.
As someone nearing the latter I am apoplectic at the lack of respect shown to older people for the experience they have. It does not matter in which field this applies.
We might not have the physical stamina but maturity, hindsight, wealth of knowledge from the university of life gives us the edge that no amount of youth can possibly yet have. As the sayings go “one cannot put a wise head on young shoulders” and “youth is wasted on the young”.
Carol Symons
London NW8, UK
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