Roger Ascham

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

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

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

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.

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

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

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

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.

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.