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The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit's connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the nature of human thought. Maryanne Wolf

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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. Maryanne Wolf

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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. Maryanne Wolf

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

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In reading, we are both scientists and poets. Maryanne Wolf

Reading Both Poets Scientists

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

Technology Replace Overwhelmed Where Want Teachers Helpful

Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading. Maryanne Wolf

Important Reading Our Emails Fine Some Forms

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? Max Muller

Dust Worm Chrysalis Sin Makes Which Butterfly

I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years. Max Muller

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast. Max Muller

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What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature? Max Muller

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How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity! Max Muller

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child. Max Muller

Strangers Soon Learns Ceases Child

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light. Max Muller

My mother was a courageous woman, and she had such tremendous love for life. She loved the natural world. She would wake us up in the middle of the night to go look at the moon. When I was a teenager, this was a source of great frustration because I wanted to sleep. Maya Soetoro-Ng

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The facts are simply that my brother was born in the United States at the Kapiolani Hospital for Women and Children in 1961. His birth certificate has been authenticated by a number of sources. Maya Soetoro-Ng

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My mother would have enjoyed the idea that her name was being used to build bridges. She cared a great deal and was very thoughtful and passionate about education and young women. Maya Soetoro-Ng

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We can do much to help our communities loosen their boundaries and begin to welcome a multitude of ways of being to make sure that individuals of mixed race, religion, or ethnicities don't feel the need to choose one or the other but see their layers as a gift, something that adds beauty. Maya Soetoro-Ng

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I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things. Maya Soetoro-Ng

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I don't think the White House has always reflected the textures and flavors of this country. Maya Soetoro-Ng

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I think it's true we look forward to enormous amounts of information, but I think we would be better off if we thought about the kinds of wisdom and thoughtfulness that we need in order to handle the amount of information ahead. Maya Soetoro-Ng

Wisdom Better Thought Think Enormous Would Would-Be Kinds About Better Off True Look Off Handle Order Information Forward Amount Need

We can't afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only matter to others far away but impact others who live far away, and there are ripples of effect. Maya Soetoro-Ng

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