To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
More Quotes from Roger Ascham:
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
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
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
Roger Ascham
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
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
Roger Ascham
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