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Roger Ascham

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Roger Ascham was an English writer, scholar, and tutor, renowned for his contributions to the English language and education. He is best known for his book 'The Schoolmaster', which was influential in shaping the education of Queen Elizabeth I and the development of English prose.

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

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“Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.”

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“Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.”

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Book:The English Works. A New Ed

Source: The English Works. A New Ed

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

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Book:The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth

Source: The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth

About the Author

Born: 1515
Died: December 23, 1568
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 26

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The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen ElizabethRelated source material

The English Works. A New EdRelated source material

English Works: Toxophilus. Report of the Affaires and State of Germany. The ScholemasterRelated source material

The ScholemasterRelated source material

The Schoolmaster: Or, A Plain and Perfect Way of Teaching Children to Underftand, Write, and Speak the Latin TongueRelated source material

The Whole Works of Roger Ascham: Letters continued and ToxophilusRelated source material

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