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Roger Ascham

Born

Kirby Wiske, Yorkshire, England

Died

November 30, 1568

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born circa 1515

English scholar Roger Ascham as Latin secretary to Edward VI, Mary I Tudor, and Elizabeth I advocated the use of the vernacular in literature.

Roger Ascham wrote his famous didactic prose promotional style and his theories of education. He acted as tutor of princess in Greek between 1548 and 1550 and served in the administrations.

From Askham near York, the name derived properly.
He lived in a village in the north riding near Northallerton as the third son of John Ascham, steward to Scrope, baron of Bolton. From the Conyers family, Margaret Ascham, his mother, supposedly came, according to speculation. Thomas Acham and John Ascham preceded Roger, and Anthony Ascham joined the family as the youngest son and brother. Edward Gran ...more

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	Toxophilus - The School of Shooting (History of Archery Series) 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1545 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scholemaster 3.42 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1568 — 201 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	English Works: Toxophilus. Report of the Affaires and State of Germany. The Scholemaster 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whole Works of Roger Ascham: Now First Collected and Revised, with a Life of the Author, Vol. I, Part II, Letters Continued by Roger Ascham, John Allen Giles (editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters of Roger Ascham: Translated by Maurice Hatch and Alvin Vos by Roger Ascham, Maurice Hatch (translator), Alvin Vos (editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toxophilus: The School of Shooting in Two Books 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roger Ascham: Sein Leben und seine Werke. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Berichte über Deutschland aus den Jahren 1550–1553 by Roger Ascham, Alfred Katterfeld 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1553 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toxophilus Criticism on Milton's paradise lost by Roger Ascham, Edward Arber, Joseph Addison 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roger Ascham Sein Leben und seine Werke by Roger Ascham, Alfred Katterfeld (editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apologia doctissimi viri Rogeri Aschami, Angli, pro caena Dominica contra missam & eius pr[a]estigias: in Academia olim Cantabrigiensi exercitationis gratia inchoata. (1577) (Latin Edition) by Roger Ascham, Edward Grant, Oecumenius 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1577	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning as is praise.”
― Roger Ascham, The United States Service Magazine

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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.”
― Roger Ascham

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“The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.”
― Roger Ascham

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