33 Quotes by Roger Ascham

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

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

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

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.

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

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.

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

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.

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.