When people who lack some aspects of knowledge have an aggressive inclination of learning, they gather information from anywhere, including books, internet, and people who know those things. These people include younger people than theirs. Because the purpose of them is to understand information, the age of the people is not an important problem as long as they have the knowledge and want to share what they know.
People who do not ask younger people have the preconception which tells them the younger people have few experience than they do. However, in this modern world where the information is increasing and renovating faster than any era of human history, professional people have their expertise in their terrains because it takes much time to absorb whole information in the specific profession. According to this, it is very possible that people can not know everything in the world, at least not detail. Therefore, any smart person might have questions in some aspects of knowledge that he is not familiar with, and he might meet a man knowing the knowledge is younger than he is.
Beside, the young people usually are eager to gather new information. When people are getting older and want to know what is going on in the world, they probably have to ask their children or younger people they know. For example, my mother did not have known about the searching engines, named Yahoo or Google, on the internet until I told her how to gather information from the internet. Actually, many things young people think are common; nonetheless, some elder people do not know their name and how they work.
After all, because knowledge is about all but people's age, we should not ask questions after considering people are younger or not. People who cross the barrier of age can harbor the universe in their mind. In fact, when people politely query other people questions, I think no one would disincline to answer those questions.
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