Roger Ascham

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Scholar and didactic writer · English · 1515–1568

English scholar and didactic writer (1515-1568)

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“It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.”

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

“Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.”

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

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

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

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“The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.”
— Roger Ascham
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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: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of ...”
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“In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.”
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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
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“By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.”
— Roger Ascham
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“It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.”
— Roger Ascham
Wisdom Bought Costly

“Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.”
— Roger Ascham
Learning Experience Year

“Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.”
— Roger Ascham