Roger Ascham quotes

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. (Roger Ascham)
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. View quote
Roger Ascham
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style. View quote
Roger Ascham
Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall. View quote
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It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience. View quote
Roger Ascham
Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world. View quote
Roger Ascham
Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. View quote
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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. View quote
Roger Ascham
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. View quote
Roger Ascham
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. View quote
Roger Ascham
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. (Roger Ascham)
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry. View quote
Roger Ascham