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Roger Ascham [1515-1568] English
Rank: 106
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Roger Ascham was an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education.

Experience, Learning, Education, Wisdom



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It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. Experience, Wisdom
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By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. 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 will to learning, as is praise. Learning
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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 should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
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In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. Learning
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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
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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 unapt to serve the world.
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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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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. Education
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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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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.
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