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Learning Quotes by Roger Ascham
- Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
- There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
- 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…
- Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
- In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
- 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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