Roger Ascham quotes
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“As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.”
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“It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.”
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“In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.”
-- Roger AschamSource : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth”, p.201
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“By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.”
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“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.”
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“There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.”
-- Roger AschamSource : 'The Schoolmaster' (1570) bk. 1
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“The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.”
-- Roger AschamSource : Roger Ascham, Edward Grant, Giles Ascham (1864). “The Whole Works of Roger Ascham: Letters continued and Toxophilus”
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“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.”
-- Roger AschamSource : 'To all gentlemen and yeomen of England' in 'Toxophilus' (1545)
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“Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.”
-- Roger AschamSource : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.229
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“To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.”
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“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 AschamSource : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.55
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“Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.”
-- Roger AschamSource : 'The Schoolmaster' (1570) preface
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“Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.”
-- Roger AschamSource : Roger Ascham, William Aldis Wright (2010). “English Works: Toxophilus. Report of the Affaires and State of Germany. The Scholemaster”, p.30, Cambridge University Press
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“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 AschamSource : Roger Ascham (1870). “The Scholemaster”, p.34
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“Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.”
-- Roger AschamSource : Roger Ascham, James Upton, Thomas Master, Sir Henry Savile (1711). “The Schoolmaster: Or, A Plain and Perfect Way of Teaching Children to Underftand, Write, and Speak the Latin Tongue”, p.136
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“For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.”
-- Roger AschamSource : 1570 The Schoolmaster, bk.2.
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“To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.”
-- Roger AschamSource : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.223
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“Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the well wishers thereof.... They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion.”
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“It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.”
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“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.”
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“He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.”
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“It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.”
-- Roger AschamSource : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth”, p.206
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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.”
-- Roger AschamSource : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth”, p.254
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