HARVARD UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY

MAY 24 1989

FIRST EDITION, 1570; COLLATED WITH THE SECOND

EDITION, 1572.

Edited by EDWARD ARBER, F.S.A., Etc.
Fellow of King's College, London; Hon. Mem. of the
Virginia Historical Society; Professor of English
Langunge and Literature, Sir Josiah

Mason's College, Birmingham,

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY

MAY 24 1980

YC

BOSTON, U.S.A.

D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS

1898

1901. nov. 20.

Harvard University, Dept. of Education Library.

TRANSFERRED TO
HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

Edut 101.3.4

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CONTENTS.

PAGE

INTRODUCTION,

ASCHAM'S METHOD of teaching Latin,

BIBLIOGRAPHY,

5

26

37

THE SCHOLEMASTER.

41

Preface (MARGARET ASCHAM's dedication to Sir

W. CECIL),

A Præface to the Reader [by R. AscHAM),

42
45

.

THE FIRST BOOK FOR THE YOUTH.

59

59-69

70

72-78

78-84

.

.

84-94

1. Ascham's Method of teaching Latin, First and SECOND

STAGES: see analysis at pp. 29-33,

2. "Why, in mine opinion, Love is fitter than Fear, Gentle-

ness better than Beating, to bring up a child rightly in

learning,"

3. The difference between Quick Wits and Hard Wits,

4. The ill choosing of scholars to go to the Universities,

5. Plato's seven plain notes to choose a good wit in a child for

learning,

6. Obj. Some men laugh at us, when we thus wish and

reason that young children should be rather allured to

learning by gentleness and love, than compelled to

learning by beating and fear,

Ans. The judgment of Socrates, No learning ought to

he learned with bondage,

7. Obj. Some will say, children of nature love pastime and

mislike learning: because, in their kind, the one is easy

and pleasant, the other hard and wearisome,

Ans. An opinion not so true as some men ween. If

ever the nature of man be given at any time more than

other, to receive goodness: it is in innocency of yong

years: before experience of evil has taken root in him

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