Roger Ascham
Roger Ascham
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 and 1550, and served in the administrations of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I...
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books led man none time
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.
assure encourage good learning master
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.
allow common counsel follow judgment man men people understand
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.
bought experience wisdom
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
attain driven good sooner
I said... how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
father book reading
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.
children driven young
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
wise men thinking
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
light purses manners
For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.
wise long unhappy
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
real good-man wealth
It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.
skills shame rashness
To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.
wise horse children
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
statistics world bent
Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.