Day: January 26, 2019

From the Director - Opening a book is opening a world.

Prof. Hong Lan, an expert in neuroscience, said that children in the 21st century should have humanistic qualities and creativity, and creativity cannot be created out of nothing, but requires a broad background knowledge, which comes from reading. Education is the foundation of a nation, and reading is the foundation of education. Through the written word, we can transcend the limitations of time and space, talk to anyone, and acquire their wisdom. This is how the accumulation of knowledge is formed, hence the Western proverb, "The fight is over".

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Brain and Reading

Learning to read involves connecting two areas of the brain: one is the object recognition system and the other is the language circuit. In cognitive neuroscientist Stanislaus Deehan's masterpiece, The Brain and Reading, he analyzes how children learn to read. Deehan's masterpiece, The Brain and Reading, analyzes how a child's growing up years are slowly transformed into an adult's reading network. The following is an excerpt to give readers a sneak peek. I used to think that babies' view of the world was "a mess," that their brains hadn't developed yet, that they were almost "a mess," and that they had no idea how to read.

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