Roger Ascham quotes

Roger Ascham was an English scholar and writer, renowned for his work as a tutor and royal court official. His book "The Scholemaster" influenced educational theory and practice in Renaissance England. He became especially famous for his advocacy of gentle methods in teaching and for tutoring Queen Elizabeth I. Here are 12 of his quotes:

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

Roger Ascham

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Roger Ascham

Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.

Roger Ascham

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

Roger Ascham

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.

Roger Ascham

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.

Roger Ascham

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Roger Ascham

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

Roger Ascham

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

Roger Ascham

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.

Roger Ascham