What separates an improving culture from a static one is not whether it passes its values to its young, since both do, but whether those values include holding its most important ideas open to criticism. Deutsch's Sparta agrees internally because law and custom enforce conformity and it claims already to have the truth.

Evidence 1 passage

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  their moral education enjoins them to hold their most important ideas immune from criticism, not to be open to suggestions, not to criticize certain ideas such as their traditions or their conceptions of the gods, not to seek the truth because they claim that they already have it.

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