Question

1. Is a group that passes cultural knowledge to each other through oration less civilized than a group who passes on information with writing?
2. In your answer: make references to what "civilization" and "civilized" means -- without giving a dictionary definition. What would people on the street say civilized/civilization is?
   1. Define also: "knowledge" and/or "intelligence" (if applicable to your post)
   2. And: if your answer makes references to knowledge -- then make sure to describe if you mean the skill of knowing how to read, versus the information or ideas that reading brought to the reader.
3. If your post makes use of the word intelligence: define what intelligence is, and account if there are multiple forms of intelligence?

Answer 1

Before knowing about cultural knowledge we should first gain some insight about knowledge (what is knowledge ?). Knowledge is knowing some fact about something. This could be a person, thing, phenomenon or event. When we gain knowledge about something or someone, we become familiar to that thing. After gaining knowledge we have some awareness about the thing. We can gain knowledge with the use of many sources, these can be education, enquiry, training or, practice and experience. In one sentence we can define knowledge as what is learned. A human being gain knowledge about many things throughout his or her life. For example, in our childhood we gain knowledge about alphabet, some basic mathematical concepts and simple language.

After gaining some insight about knowledge we can know about cultural knowledge. In a simple language we can say that knowledge about a culture is cultural knowledge. Culture has some beliefs, values, norms, customs, way of living, specific language, traditions. By cultural knowledge we gain knowledge about these aspects of culture. These cultural factors flow from one generation to other.
A question arises here that when a group passes Cultural knowledge to each other through oration is less civilized or not. This question is very tough to answer because criteria of being civilized group are different for people. Knowledge about any culture passes by oration as well as writing. We can't justify any group by this criterion. Written facts are more trustworthy so, we can rely more on written facts about cultural knowledge.   

Civilization means a developed society which has its own highly developed culture and way of living. A civilized person knows how to behave politely in any particular situation. He knows how to eat, how to talk, how to adjust in a complex situation. A civilized society make its individual civilized. Different culture has its own way of living. In one culture one thing is acceptable while in other it is completely unacceptable.