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"Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read."
"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."
"We often know information but not the epistemology of that information."
"Failure is the school of greatness."
"We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher."
"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own."
"I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction."
Explore more quotes by Roger Ascham
"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."
"In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning."
"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 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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