The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. Roger Ascham More Quotes by Roger Ascham More Quotes From Roger Ascham To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. Roger Ascham rashness shame skills It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children. Roger Ascham horse wise children 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 education book children A man reacheth not to excellence with one language. Roger Ascham language-words excellence men It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. Roger Ascham good-man wealth real It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. Roger Ascham costly bought experience wisdom 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. Roger Ascham live others how world 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 will good you learning 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. Roger Ascham end man reading time 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 man wise men people