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An opsimath is a person who begins, or continues, to study or learn late in life.〔''The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary'', page 2010. Oxford University Press, 2002.〕 The word is derived from the Greek ὀψέ (''opsé''), meaning 'late' and μανθάνω (''manthánō''), meaning 'learn'.〔Bowler, Peter: ''The Superior Person's Book of Words'', page 101. Bloomsbury, 2002.〕
Opsimathy was once frowned upon, used as a put-down with implications of laziness,〔(FirstThings.com essay ) regarding "exposure" of opsimathy, implying negativity. (URL accessed April 15, 2006)〕 and considered less effective by educators than early learning.〔(nifl.gov thread ) concerning opsimathy. (URL accessed April 15, 2006)〕 The emergence of "opsimath clubs"〔(Simon Fraser News ) reports an "opsimath club". (URL accessed April 15, 2006)〕 has demonstrated that opsimathy has shed much of this negative connotation,〔(Glasgow Caledonian University speech ) aggrandizing opsimathy. (URL accessed April 15, 2006)〕 and that this approach may, in fact, be desirable.〔(NIACE.org ) promotes adult learning. (URL accessed April 15, 2006)〕
Notable opsimaths include the fictitious character Sir Henry Rawlinson, Grandma Moses, mathematician Paul Erdős (who published papers up until his death at age 83), and Cato the Elder, who learned Greek only at the age of 80.
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