About Roger Ascham

Roger Aschamwas an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education. He served in the administrations of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, having earlier acted as Elizabeth’s tutor in Greek and Latin between 1548 and 1550.

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

Roger Ascham

English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Roger Ascham

English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)

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

English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)

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

Roger Ascham

English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)

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

English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)

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

Roger Ascham

English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)

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

Roger Ascham

English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)

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.

Roger Ascham

English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)

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.

Roger Ascham

English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

Roger Ascham

English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

Roger Ascham

English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)

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

Roger Ascham

English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)