Maryanne Wolf Quotes

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

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.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

You can’t get intelligence by sitting and saying nothing.

Educate, educate, educate!

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.

Every time we have made an investment in education, it has paid off.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

I think the best thing you can teach a person is how to learn. And once they discover their own individual approach to that - which is inside all of us - then all of a sudden, they've opened up a door of endless resources.