7 Quotes By Roger Ascham


By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
Roger Ascham on experience

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

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham on learning

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

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham on learning

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
Roger Ascham on learning

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Roger Ascham on wisdom