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1510–1568 England
Roger Ascham (c. 1515 – December 23, 1568) was an English humanist scholar and a writer on education and archery. He is remembered as an advocate of plain English in literary works, and as the tutor of Princess Elizabeth.
Also known as: Ascham, Roger
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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
The Schoolmaster (1570)
Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.
Toxophilus (1545)
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
I said...how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
The Schoolmaster (1570)
To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face,
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.
By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
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