It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

- Roger Ascham

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

- Roger Ascham

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

- 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 manslaug…

- Roger Ascham

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

- Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

- Roger Ascham

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

- Roger Ascham

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

- Roger Ascham

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

- Roger Ascham