Adapt Quote by 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

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 same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow…

— Maryanne Wolf

Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting to unfold.…

— Maryanne Wolf

Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of…

— Seymour Papert

“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 or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and,…

— Maryanne Wolf

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

Reading becomes the fuel for development.

— Narendra Modi

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

As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically…

— Maryanne Wolf