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12 quotes by Roger Ascham

Roger Ascham Sketch of Roger Ascham Born c. 1515 Kirby Wiske, Yorkshire Died 30 December 1568 (aged c. 53) Nationality English Occupation scholar, didactic writer Notable work(s) The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham (1515 – 30 December 1568) 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 and...
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By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

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

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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... →

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It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

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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... →

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

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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... →

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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... →

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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

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

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

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