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

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"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Dare to read."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The greatest treasures are books."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"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."

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

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"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 manslaughter and bawdry."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by."

"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"

"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."

"Dare to read."

"The greatest treasures are books."

"We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life."

"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."

"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."

"In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied."

"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."

Explore more quotes by Roger Ascham

"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."

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

"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 manslaughter and bawdry."

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

"It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."