You want to learn from them, but they don't know anything.  

You're saying nice words about reaching out to the young, but you undercut it all with that suggestion that they don't know anything and don't know how to make permanent choices and need you to help them discern their vocation.

You acknowledge that they, like the rest of us, want to listened to, want to be heard.  Unfortunately, listening to the lay  and really hearing them does not strike me as something the hierarchy is truly interested in doing.