We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each… — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
There's no question that our children's attention and memory is changing when they are reading too long, too much, too early on… — Maryanne Wolf Attention Copy Share Image
After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception,… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
There's an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use it or lose it. It is a very hopeful… — Maryanne Wolf Age Copy Share Image
We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote 'Proust… — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting… — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we… — Maryanne Wolf Critical analysis Copy Share Image
There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
Learning to read, for the brain, is a lot like an amateur ringmaster first learning how to organise a three-ring circus. He… — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge.… — Maryanne Wolf Children Copy Share Image
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
“When we pass over into how a knight thinks, how a heroine behaves, and how an evildoer can regret or deny wrongdoing,… — Maryanne Wolf Inspiration Copy Share Image
The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
When we have any function, whether it's language or vision or cognitive functions like memory, we aren't dealing with a straight line… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
Digital technology can be a great resource, but it can also be a pernicious one, so it's how we, as a society,… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Focused reading is so important, and I'm just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing… — Maryanne Wolf Beauty Copy Share Image
Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to… — Maryanne Wolf Accuracy Copy Share Image
There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one… — Maryanne Wolf Achievement Copy Share Image
