Author: Roger Ascham

Quotes

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

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

- 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.

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.

- Roger Ascham

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

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

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.

- Roger Ascham

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

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

- Roger Ascham

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

- Roger Ascham

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

- Roger Ascham

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

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

- Roger Ascham

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