Alphas Quote by Carol Bly

Kids can learn a lot by seeing things rather than reading it.

— Diogo Morgado

“Here’s a scary stat: for each daily hour of TV a little one watches under age three, his likelihood of having an attention deficit…

— Megan McGrory Massaro

“Consider what a child misses during the 15, 000 hours (from birth to age seventeen) he spends in front of the TV screen. He…

— Paul Copperman

All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything…

— Bette Midler

The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied…

— Federico Fellini

Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are…

— Tony Buzan

The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is estimated that…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital…

— Maryanne Wolf

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It…

— J. M. Coetzee

There's no question that our children's attention and memory is changing when they are reading too long, too much, too early on digital screens.

— 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

“Americans 2 years of age and older now spend an average of four hours and 49 minutes per day in front of the TV—20…

— John Medina