But is this not code for steering the taxpayers' dollars to religious groups, in defiance of that supposed traditional wisdom?

ECONOMIST: Lexington

You get people who are just fascinated by the traditional cultural wisdom and how that helps them in their modern life to give balance to it.

BBC: Sydney��s Aboriginal side

Changing times do tend to challenge our traditional political assumptions and question our conventional wisdom about left and right.

BBC: England

The popular wisdom is that they will revolutionize higher education, and possibly even put traditional colleges and universities out of business.

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