Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

When I was 12, that's when I went to college. All my friends were 20, 21, and I was 12. It didn't even occur to me that that was strange.

It is crazy. It's our first kid, and all of a sudden, she identifies letters as what they are, and you go, 'This kid is a genius - she's obviously some sort of savant!'

Genius: the superhuman in man.

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.

When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.

This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.

I cannot remember not being able to read.

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.

I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

I was kind of advanced for my age, just because I started early, when I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. And my dad always had me playing with older groups.

Having one of the highest IQs ever measured is as much a curse as it is a blessing. My parents were great, though: they were always seeking the most difficult presents possible for me - Rubik's cubes and things like that.

Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.