We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience. — Maryanne Wolf 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 Copy Share Image
Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
No one can ever prepare a parent for two things: the immeasurable love that comes with having a child; and the sorrow… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being… — Maryanne Wolf 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 to read… — Maryanne Wolf 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 least cognitively… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than the act… — Maryanne Wolf 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 has the… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
