Dean Geyer Quotes

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.

So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

Being home-schooled, you really get to explore your hobbies, what you want to do for a living.

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

I've always found ways to bend the rules.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

I'm a late-night host that doesn't want to be tied down by time or television or even hosting.

My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.

I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.

I'm part of a generation that's saying, 'I don't want to do just one thing, and I'm going to do things the way I want.'

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when someone else thinks you should.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

Gotta know the rules to break the rules.

My style is that I have no style.

I don't feel like I've ever fit into a specific mold ever since I was very young. That's what so cool about YouTube is that you can do whatever you want.