Definition: valuing the oral, written, or recorded history <especially the truth> handed down from age to age or ancestor to posterity
Balancing Quality: Curiosity
Familial Quality: conservative
Observations:
• There is a traditional conflict between those who hold to the established ways of the past and those who seek a more modern approach. This conflict need not be as divisive if those involved focus on the truth and value of each strategy. All things known lead to all things knowable.
• “Traditional Values” vary from place to place and culture to culture, but they all include the basic human virtues: love, honesty, humor, fairness, justice, wisdom, honor, goodness, freedom, mercy, loyalty, … .