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
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
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
After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out. — Maryanne Wolf 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
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 Children 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 Children Copy Share Image
The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a… — Maryanne Wolf Change 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 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
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
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
There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about… — Maryanne Wolf Being 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
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
“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
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
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
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
