Roger Asham
(1515 - 1568)
English scholar and humanist who was a tutor to the princess who became Elizabeth I. He wrote The Scholemaster (1570), a treatise on education published posthumously, and Toxophilus concerning archery for scholars.
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Science Quotes by Roger Asham (4 quotes)
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
— Roger Asham
The Scholemaster (1570). In Robert Chambers (ed.), Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions (1858), 78.
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. (c.1550)
— Roger Asham
The Scholemaster (1570), Book 1.
We know by experience itself, that … we find out but a short way, by long wandering.
— Roger Asham
The Scholemaster (1570), Book 1.
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
— Roger Asham
The Scholemaster (1570), Book 1, Preface.