discovery
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It is odd that we have no word for serendipity’s close by but troublesome cousin, especially because it is more common variety of experience. I refer to a situation in which someone looks to one thing, discovers a more valuable thing, but doesn’t know it. I propose the word columbusity, if honor of Christopher Columbus.
Neil Postman -
How can I help students to get an idea? … One of the ways that seem to help is to ask them to survey their stock of beliefs, choose one of them that they hold deeply, and then argue that its opposite is true. The result is often liberating, and provides confirmation of the commonplace that playing with language is an important means of making discoveries.
Neil Postman