لعلّ تعلّم القراءة أصعب ما يطرأ على الدماغ البشري وأخطره أثرًا، ومن لا يصدّق ذلك فليراقب بالغًا أميًّا وهو يحاول.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.”John Steinbeck — America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction (2003)
جون ستاينبيك
مؤلف · 1902–1968. له 237 حكمة في الموقع.
الصورة: McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as Steinbeck is wearing the same clothes from her 1935 studio session that produced the work shown here: https://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.74