“I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.” NationsRecordsGrewGrew UpHighestTraditionTreasureVotersEngagementParticipationCivicsMinnesotaCivic Engagement Author:Al Franken
“Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.” KnowsStuffRecordsTraditionGoldEnglandPhotographAwardsBathroom Author:Adele
“In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.” KnowsWayHumansYoungLife IsCultureRolesTeachRecordsTeacherGroupsTeachingBehaviorLateAdultsTraditionSeparationInventionDefinedTiedPrimitiveHabitualHuman SocietyExplicitImplicit Author:Margaret Mead
“Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories.” YearsIdeasWarFactsHistoryRecordsImagineWrittenEventsHorrorWeaponsYears AgoTraditionAncientBoxesMythologyInventionInnocentErasTemptingWeaponryPandoraBiological WeaponsOral TraditionPandora's BoxWritten History Author:Adrienne Mayor
“Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.” PersonsSaidBookStoriesNamesRecordsEvidenceConcernTraditionObservationPassagesFragmentsMonumentDiligenceAntiquityIndustriousRemnantsDeluge Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition: Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition: