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Roger Ascham - The schoolmaster

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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.

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

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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

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


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

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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

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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.

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

Roger Ascham

Roger Ascham
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Born: 1515
Died: December 30, 1568 (aged 53)
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