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
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. – Roger Ascham
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. – Roger Ascham
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. – Roger Ascham
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. – Roger Ascham
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. – Roger Ascham
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. – Roger Ascham
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
