Roger Ascham Quotes

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• Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
• 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…
• There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
• As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
• Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the…
• 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…
• Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, &…
• Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
• It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.
• The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
• In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
• To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
• A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into…
• By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
• It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…

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