Roger Ascham Quotes

“Although, by todays standards, he set a vast amount of work, he believed as he told Mrs Ashley, that 'If you pour much drink into a goblet, the most part will dash out and run over'. In Ascham's view, it was the carrot, and not the stick, that worked.”
― Alison Weir, The Children of Henry VIII

“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

“The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.”
― Roger Ascham