Born Quote by 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

“We were never born to read. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged the very…

— Grabe

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

— Naguib Mahfouz

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

— Katherine Paterson

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch…

— John Steinbeck

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

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

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

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

— LeVar Burton

“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

Reading has been a part of my life ever since I was born.

— Marley Dias

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