Communication Quote by Andrew Ng

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

From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the…

— David Perlmutter

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

— Jean Berko Gleason

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never…

— Maryanne Wolf

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

If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their…

— David Elkind

“It's hard to see what the problem is. Language speakers and writers have always been inventive, and texting is just one further example of…

— Jean Aitchison

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit…

— Maryanne Wolf

Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.

— Geoffrey Hinton

People can express themselves better with images than just text, so they communicate more this way.

— Alan Schaaf

We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language; it needs…

— Maryanne Wolf

The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may…

— Maryanne Wolf