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We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a 'fresh' brain - one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read.
Maryanne Wolf
Maryanne Wolf
Maryanne Wolf

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