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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
learning science solitude
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.
teaching praise wit
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
years twenties
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
wise writing men
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.
hurt hate scary
Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the well wishers thereof.... They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion.
writing ready has-beens
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
memories men may
A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.
medicine
Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.
writing littles too-much
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.
education children book
I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing.
men language-words excellence
A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.
men race wings
Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
long experience wandering-around
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.