For as long as we humans have existed, stories have entertained us and helped us hand down knowledge and lore from generation to generation; they are so fundamental to us that they must somehow be hard-wired into our brains.
EVERY generation delights in handing down its knowledge to the next assuming, of course, that the next is ready to sit raptly at its feet.
Every week, like a modern-day Prometheus handing down secret knowledge about arcane tools, they have dutifully informed millions of readers about the latest gadgets or services, and whether or not they are worth purchasing.
The artisans (there are around ninety in all) are charged with preserving French craft traditions by handing down their knowledge and technique to students—in part, perhaps, as a countervailing influence against such infiltrating cultural forces as Euro Disney.
The artisans (there are around ninety in all) are charged with preserving French craft traditions by handing down their knowledge and technique to students — in part, perhaps, as a countervailing influence against such infiltrating cultural forces as Euro Disney.
In a number of parts of the southeastern United States, families have handed down traditional knowledge for collecting earthworms by vibrating the ground.
A variety of examples of vernacular architecture are used to illustrate the shift from an empirically based traditional knowledge handed down over centuries, to our own era in which that knowledge has been lost.
"He loves to hand down word-of-mouth knowledge," Steve Barney, a former student who has become one of the Dennetts' many "honorary children," says.
Developing an interest in the sciences as well, al-Maʾmūn established observatories at which Muslim scholars could verify the astronomic knowledge handed down from antiquity.
The Kanaka Maoli continue to respect this knowledge handed down to them by their ancestors.
