This list of How to Kindle Curiosity began in my quiet corner... and continues here...

See dictionaries, atlases, thesauruses, almanacs and encyclopedias as friends. Because when you get into the LOOK IT UP HABIT, you discover the most interesting detours---unexpected, natural learning!

When you are looking up where the Hudson River flows, you notice Hudson Bay to the North, with its own little James Bay, with Thunder Bay to it's south, and Green Bay a tad further south... at nearly the same latitude as Hudson River!

When you look up another word for transparency, you bump into other shimmering, dazzling words: lucidity, pellucidity, diaphanousness... diaphanwhat?  Grab the dictionary and LOOK IT UP!

You do have time to look it up--because it will spark wonder and kindle curiosity, opening the door to whole other worlds of knowledge!

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. 

~Franklin P. Adams

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