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ROGER ASCHAMR, N. H.

THE

SCHOLEMASTER.

Written between 1563-8. Posthumously published.

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 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE,
SIR JOSIAH MASON'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM.

PA2061
A812

1888

PRESS OF S. J. PARKHILL & CO.,

222 FRANKLIN ST., BOSTON.

A Præface to the Reader [by R. ASCHAM],

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THE FIRST BOOK FOR THE YOUTH.

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,"

59-69

70

72-78

78-84

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

be 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