In one sense, very young persons are apt to think too much of themselves--in another, not enough. When they think they know more than their parents and teachers, or other elderly people, and so set up to be _bold_ and _smart_, then they think too much of themselves. It used to be said, when I was a boy, that “Young folks _think_ old folks are fools; but old folks _know_ young folks are fools.” Although I would be very far indeed from calling you _fools_, because you have already acquired much knowledge, and have the capacity for acquiring much more, yet, with reference to such knowledge as is acquired by _experience_, and in comparison with _what there is to be known_, there is “more truth t…
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