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

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

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

— 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

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in…

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Naguib Mahfouz

“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

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

— Margaret Wise Brown

“Why do we speak of memory and speed reading? Why is there this need to learn how to learn? The reason is simple. Because…

— Robert James

The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever acquired it.

— Maryanne Wolf

“If we have no form of cognitive learning, our knowledge is empty with the absence of words in our mind for us to speak…

— Saaif Alam