Roger Ascham Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Roger Ascham Quotes and Sayings


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    By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. Roger Ascham | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    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 should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. Roger Ascham | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. Roger Ascham | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. Roger Ascham | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. Roger Ascham | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    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 unapt to serve the world. Roger Ascham | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. Roger Ascham | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. Roger Ascham | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style. Roger Ascham | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. Roger Ascham | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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