Geoff Dyer Quotes

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

I'll always be a student. I learn by doing.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

Learn how to learn, then learn what to learn

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

You keep learning all the time.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.