Thousand years Quote by Grabe

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

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

“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

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

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

“Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings,” wrote Paul. “Brain science shows this claim is truer…

— Terry Marselle

The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to developing whole…

— Maryanne Wolf

“reading has as many functions as the human body, and... not all of them are cerebral.”

— Anna Quindlen

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of…

— Rick Gekoski

“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”

— Harold Bloom

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

— Anonymous