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.
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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 wise men allow him.Roger Ascham
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
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Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
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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.
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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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