Which term describes the practice of sharing knowledge through spoken stories and sayings instead of written records?

• A. Traditional Teaching
• B. Oral Culture
• C. World View
• D. Culture

Answer: (B)

Sharing knowledge through spoken stories and sayings rather than writing things down is about how communities pass along information, history, values, and lessons by mouth—through myths, legends, proverbs, songs, and everyday conversations. This lived, speaking-based tradition is called oral culture. It highlights memory, performance, and communal participation as the ways knowledge is kept alive and shared across generations, especially in societies where writing isn’t central.

Traditional Teaching refers more to methods of instruction, not the specific practice of transmitting knowledge orally. World View describes underlying beliefs about how the world works, not the method of passing along information. Culture is the broad system of beliefs, practices, and artifacts of a group, which includes both spoken and written traditions, but the question specifically points to transmission by speech, which is the hallmark of oral culture.