Ambiguity is the heart of real learning, but our traditional educational system stresses exactness and specificity. We should allow children to be free to discover discrepant events. This is the map of learning - back and forth until so much order persists that playfulness is terminated and proposition yields to fact. We need to educate so as to keep this cycle churning. It is important not to discount the personal experiences of each child.
Children can call upon widespread experiences and vast knowledge.
A surprise with implications for education is that stroke victims can be helped by ignoring the disability and focusing instead on calling out qualities of information that were stored in other, non-injured parts of the brain. Samples believes that every part of the brain knows everything any other part of the brain knows, so we can teach people to distribute experience rather than to isolate it. When people believe they haven't lost their mental capacity, they recover faster. They tap into learning that existed before, and create access routes into different realms. This can be applied to children's learning too.