Roger Ascham Quotes

• As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

  Roger Ascham

  Men, Language Words, Wings

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• It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

  Roger Ascham

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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 Ascham

  Children, Learning, Love Is

  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.

  Roger Ascham

  Long, Experience, Wandering Around

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

  Roger Ascham

  Writing, Ready, Has Beens

  Roger Ascham, Edward Grant, Giles Ascham (1864). “The Whole Works of Roger Ascham: Letters continued and Toxophilus”

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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.

  Roger Ascham

  Men, Race, Wings

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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 Ascham

  Wise, Writing, Men

  'To all gentlemen and yeomen of England' in 'Toxophilus' (1545)

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

  Roger Ascham

  Teaching, Praise, Wit

  'The Schoolmaster' (1570) bk. 1

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• To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

  Roger Ascham

  Skills, Shame, Rashness

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• To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face:
  Four ways in court to win man's grace.

  Roger Ascham

  Lying, Winning, Men

  Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.223

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• Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

  Roger Ascham

  Learning, Science, Years

  Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.229

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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 Ascham

  Father, Book, Reading

  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 Ascham

  Children, Learning, Science

  'The Schoolmaster' (1570) preface

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

  Roger Ascham

  Medicine

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

  Roger Ascham

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  'To all gentlemen and yeomen of England' in 'Toxophilus' (1545)

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• A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

  Roger Ascham

  Men, Language Words, Excellence

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• Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

  Roger Ascham

  Writing, Twenties, Littles

  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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• 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

  World, Statistics, Bent

  Roger Ascham (1870). “The Scholemaster”, p.34

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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 Ascham

  Light, Purses, Manners

  1570 The Schoolmaster, bk.2.

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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.

  Roger Ascham

  Hurt, Hate, Scary

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

  Roger Ascham

  Real, Good Man, Wealth

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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.

  Roger Ascham

  Memories, Men, May

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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.

  Roger Ascham

  Wise, Long, Experience

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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 Ascham

  Wise, Horse, Children

  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 Ascham

  Education, Children, Book

  Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth”, p.254

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