"There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a……" — Roger Ascham
"There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise."
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18 Quotes by Roger Ascham
Roger Ascham has 18 quotes on this site.
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Young children were 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…
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As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
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Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully…
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Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit…
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Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit…
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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
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It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.
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The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
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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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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
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A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for…
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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I have always been one to encourage perseverance.
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