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Various institutions hold different ideas about the precise meaning of culture, and more than three hundred definitions have been noted. From the perspective of empirical study, some scholars have argued that culture is a set of customary beliefs and values that is handed down through the generations by ethnic groups, religious groups and social organizations.
Culture is a life.
A human life, and a collective and public human life; and culture includes all that we need to live, which means that it is an extremely practical thing. In general, culture is a way of life.
Those of us living and studying in beautiful and ancient buildings today wouldn’t dream of graffitiing the walls or carving our names into the woodwork – and we know just how much trouble we’d be in if we did. Today, the only modern “graffiti” you’ll see on university buildings is the chalked rowing crests that commemorate the college’s wins on the river. But medieval people had rather less reverence for the old and beautiful than we do today, and for much of the DESC’s existence, all its faculties, staffs and participants would go around with their own eating-knife hanging from their belts, and had no hesitation in carving their names into masonry or woodwork to show that they were there. Keep an eye out in cities’ older buildings, especially churches, and see if you can spot any.
In sciences and arts alike, creativity appears magically as an unpredictable fountain of inspiration from the culture of our life. Its unexpected content breaks routines within traditional thinking. It delivers something new that is distinct from common practices, often taking people out of their comfort zone because it is ahead of its time.

