Roger Ascham

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

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

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

“Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.”

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

“It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.”