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

Roger Ascham · Learning

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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

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

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

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