Roger Ascham Quotes

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

  Roger Ascham

  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Men

• For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

  Roger Ascham

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Young children [are] sooner allured by love than driven by beating to attain good learning.

  Roger Ascham

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Roger Ascham

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Praise

• By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

  Roger Ascham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Long, Find

• It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

  Roger Ascham

  Topics in Experience, Wisdom

• Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

  Roger Ascham

  Topics in Experience

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

  Roger Ascham

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Young

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

  Roger Ascham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learned, Ready

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

  Roger Ascham

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Better

• 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

  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Men

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learning

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Read

Roger Ascham (15)

Birth:	1515
Death:	30th December, 1568
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Scholar, Writer

About

Roger Ascham 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 1548–50, and served in the administrations of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.

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