Quotes by Roger Ascham

• 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.
• 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.
• Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
• By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
• It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
• To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
• 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.
• 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.
• In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
• The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
• 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.