Roger Ascham Quotes

• For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

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• Young children [are] sooner allured by love than driven by beating to attain good learning.

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• He that will write well in any tongue,must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

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• He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

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• 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.

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• In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

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• 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.

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• Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

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• The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

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• Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

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• It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

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• To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

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• There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

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• By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

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• Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

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Roger Ascham (15)

Birth:	1515
Death:	30th December, 1568
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Scholar, Writer

About

Roger Ascham was an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education. He acted as Princess Elizabeth's tutor in Greek and Latin between 1548–50, and served in the administrations of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.

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