Roger Ascham Quote Explained: There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

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As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

Tutor and scholar

· England

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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

- Roger Ascham

Tutor and scholar

· England

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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

- Roger Ascham

Tutor and scholar

· England

Wise

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

- Roger Ascham

Tutor and scholar

· England

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It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

- Roger Ascham

Tutor and scholar

· England

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Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.

- Roger Ascham

Tutor and scholar

· England

Medicine

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

- Roger Ascham

Tutor and scholar

· England

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To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man’s grace.

- Roger Ascham

Tutor and scholar

· England

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

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

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

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

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.

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

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man’s grace.

I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

I never have wit until I am below stairs. [Fr., Je n’ai jamais d’esprit qu’au bas de l’escalier.] Explain

What a teacher needs to know about psychology “might almost be written on the palm of one’s hand.”

Just bring your wits. Sometimes that’s the most effective weapon any of us has.

Discipline is positive. Discipline is training. Teaching and discipline are inseparable.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

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

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

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