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Maryanne Wolf Quotes

American - Educator | -

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 new pathways in the cerebral evolution of our species.

Quality Reading Thought Evolution

My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and critical analysis that we can apply to the rest of our lives.

Work Creative Empathy Rest Reading

There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one of the most important pathways to its achievement begins with the desire to seek what is good - for the self, for those we love, for 'our neighbor,' for our earth.

Life Love Good Achievement Self

We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices.

Past Limits Thought Lose Fools Go

The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.

Ability Read Text Basic Most Simply

The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to decode very well yet. They lack automatic decoding skills, and this prevents them from being able to read accurately, much less smoothly and quickly. Decoding accuracy is the first prerequisite to fluency.

Child Know Skills Accuracy First

It's an individual waste and it's an economic waste for Australia not to recognise dyslexia.

Australia Individual Economic Waste

There's no question that our children's attention and memory is changing when they are reading too long, too much, too early on digital screens.

Children Memory Reading Attention

Digital technology can be a great resource, but it can also be a pernicious one, so it's how we, as a society, really study the cognitive impact of that and use evidence-based research to go after the technology designers to do a better job of dealing with the problems of memory and attention we are seeing.

Technology Great Job Memory Research

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

Reading Poets Both Scientists

I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.

Children Beginning Believe Reading

I don't want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful.

Technology Want Teachers Overwhelmed

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