The most succinct definition of Culture is Directions for Performance.
Where does that performance take place?
In our Social-Institutions, of which there are five, all interdependent.
Teaching-Learning, Value, Economic, Government, and Idea-Institutions.
The most succinct definition of Social-Institutions is Performance of Directions.

Life without Social-Interaction is impossible.
Social-interaction without Explanation is inconceivable.
Life without both is a chaos.

The mind reacts against the sensation of chaos, and the tension, disorientation, and disturbance it produces, by building roads, ways through the forest, in the form of clear and firm ideas that help us find our way in the world.

We cannot live on a human level without ideas. We are our ideas.

But we're also born in a specific period of time at a definite stage of history.
We must live at the level of ideas of our time in history.

The world needs competent and dedicated professionals. But before this, and more than this, it needs those who know how to govern, to direct and guide the social-institutions that drive the many cultures of our global civilization.

Today, that means all of us, not just our leaders.

To do this at all well means making our lives a vital influence in harmony with the ideas of our time, in their most developed form.

We must, in short, know something about culture and how it directs the performance that takes place in our social-institutions, and how all of this relates to the world in which we live.