Roger Ascham was an English humanist scholar and a writer on education and archery. He is remembered as an advocate of plain English in literary works, and as the tutor of
Princess Elizabeth.
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- Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.
- Toxophilus, p. 50. (1545)
- There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
- The Schoolmaster, p. 1 (1570)