The captain was right. It’s harder to teach someone who thinks that they know a lot. Regardless if that person is old or young. You can only teach those; who are open to learning.
He flat out said that at the end of the first episode, he has no real problems with Nolan the person, but if Nolan succeeds he was afraid of what kind of recruits that would bring in.
There are benefits and downsides to everything. This goes both ways with having either a mature-age baby boomer or millenial-age college/high school graduate as a new trainee/apprentice in a job. The failure of a mentor/educator is to not afford them the same opportunity to excel in their new job and presume the worst in them; I would much rather see the best in them and work around the challenges that are unique to that trainee, because we are all different people at the end of the day. Having said that I've met my fair share of asshats in either groups, but there are twice as many brilliant trainees.
Classic example of stereo typing someone - Now also called profiling. Assess the INDIVIDUAL. You can use stereotypes as far as what you might expect, but also be prepared for someone who doesn't fit that "Type" profile.
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