Roger Ascham
Roger Ascham
Roger Ascham was an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education. He acted as Princess Elizabeth's tutor in Greek and Latin between 1548 and 1550, and served in the administrations of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I...
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bought experience wisdom
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
books led man none time
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.
medicine
Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.
learning science solitude
Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.
writing ready has-beens
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
writing littles too-much
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.