It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. Roger Ascham buycostlyexperience Change image and share on social
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. Roger Ascham encouragegoodlearn Change image and share on social
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 bendheadlive Change image and share on social
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 aristotlecommoncounsel share on social
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. Roger Ascham experiencelearnteacheth Change image and share on social
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. Roger Ascham learnpartready Change image and share on social
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. Roger Ascham allureattainbeat Change image and share on social
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 assureencouragegood Change image and share on social
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. Roger Ascham beatbringchild Change image and share on social
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 bawdrybookchivalry Change image and share on social
