Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
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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
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
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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By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
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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.
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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham
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