8 Quotes & Sayings By Roger Ascham

Roger Ascham, a writer and translator, was born in 1415 and died in 1495. His father was a courtier and his mother was the daughter of a royal official. Ascham is most famous for his translation of The Scholemaster: An Introduction to Grammer (1548), the oldest surviving English grammar. It is an important document in the history of education; it helped prepare the way for Renaissance humanism and Renaissance science Read more

He also wrote an account of the education of his son, Edward (now lost) and a treatise on logic (1550).

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The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. Roger Ascham
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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. Roger Ascham
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In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. Roger Ascham
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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. Roger Ascham
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By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. Roger Ascham
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It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. Roger Ascham
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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. Roger Ascham