Roger Ascham - The schoolmaster

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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

Mark all mathematical heads which be only and wholly bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve the world.

Roger Ascham

I said…how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

Roger Ascham

Inglese Italianato, e un diavolo incarnato, that is to say, you remain men in shape and fashion, but become devils in life and condition.

Of Englishmen travelling in Italy

Roger Ascham

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face
Four ways in court to win men grace.

Roger Ascham

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Roger Ascham

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.

Roger Ascham