We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers. — Maryanne Wolf Become 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 Child development Copy Share Image
The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever… — Maryanne Wolf Important Copy Share Image
It's an individual waste and it's an economic waste for Australia not to recognise dyslexia. — Maryanne Wolf Australia Copy Share Image
Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them. — Maryanne Wolf Approach 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
Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language;… — Maryanne Wolf Adapt Copy Share Image
As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago.… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come… — Maryanne Wolf Bridge 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 Children Copy Share Image
The integration of the simpler and the deeper reading processes is not automatic and requires years of learning by the novice reader,… — Maryanne Wolf Books 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 Beginning 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
“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
I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth… — Maryanne Wolf Day 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 Better job 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
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
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
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
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 21st century 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 Developing Copy Share Image
