There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being content with the surface.
Interpretation
Reading enriches our understanding and encourages deeper exploration beyond the surface level.
In this quote, Maryanne Wolf emphasizes the transformative power of reading as a medium that allows us to delve into ideas and narratives much deeper than any other form of communication. It highlights the importance of curiosity and critical thinking, suggesting that true enrichment comes from engaging thoroughly with texts rather than merely skimming their surface.
In practice
During a book club meeting when discussing the profound impact of literature.
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.
In reading, we are both scientists and poets.
The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever acquired it.
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.
The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may also be why digital reading may ultimately prove antithetical to the long-in-development, reflective nature of the expert reading brain as we know it.
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.
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
The hands are the instruments of manβs intelligence.
We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.
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