Roger Ascham was an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education. He served in the administrations of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, having earlier acted as Elizabeth's tutor in Greek and Latin between 1548 and 1550.
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“There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.”
The Schoolmaster (1570), p. 1
