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
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.
wise men thinking
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
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.
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.
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.
lying men winning
To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.
men wings language-words
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
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.
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.