Brain 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

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

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

— Maryanne Wolf

We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language; it needs…

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

— Anonymous

As Daniel Levitin writes, our brain is a "giant pattern detector." If we read something that coincides with what we already believe we're more…

— John Cleese

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

— Eric Thomas

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

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

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 is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is wise to…

— Marcus Borg