In other words, we cannot find personal fulfillment in solipsistic pursuits. We are, by nature, directed outward. We are connected. Education passes on tradition. Through story, myth, and symbol it connects one generation to another.
Some people look on tradition as a given.
It is something like a Holy Grail passed but not altered from one age to another. I would prefer to think of tradition as rootedness. It s a grounding and a soil from which constant new growth emerges. Tradition is a living thing not a dead hand of the past, but the living memory of what was experienced and valued. In Judaism this concept is embodied in the notion of zikkur -remembrance.