Enlightened societies transmit only selected cultural achievements

Evidence

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse … As a society becomes more enlightened, it realises that it is responsible not to conserve and transmit the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as make for a better future society. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1016

Categorization

• DEFINE: Dewey’s principle that a mature society must curate its heritage, discarding dead wood, is a conceptual framework Ambedkar adopts for the caste question.