Brain Quote by 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

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

— 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

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

There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to…

— Maryanne Wolf

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

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

— Anonymous

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

— Alberto Manguel

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page,…

— Anonymous

In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy…

— Patricia T. O'Conner

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