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