The Schoolmaster by Roger Ascham
The Scholemaster (1570)
Roger Ascham (1515-1568)
English essayist.
Roger Ascham's works stood for centuries as models of English prose style. His treatise on archery, Toxophilus, The Schole of Shootinge (1545), and his guide to pedagogy, The Scholemaster (1570), were admired and imitated both for their precepts and their prosody. Through his works, and as Latin secretary and private tutor to Elizabeth I, Ascham exerted a decisive influence on the development of classical humanism in Renaissance England and on the pattern of education for the English aristocracy.
Roger Ascham
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Scholar
Nationality: England Executive summary: The Scholemaster
English scholar and writer, was born at Kirby Wiske, a village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, near Northallerton, about the year 1515.
Roger Ascham
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English: Roger Ascham library site This listed bui...His name would be more properly spelled Askham, being derived, doubtless, from Askham in the West Riding. He was the third son of John Ascham, steward to Lord Scrope of Bolton. The family name of his mother Margaret is unknown, but she is said to have been well connected. The authority for this statement, as for most others concerning Ascham's early life, is Edward Grant, headmaster of Westminster, who collected and edited his letters and delivered a panegyrical oration on his life in 1576.
Major Works
Toxophilus and The Scholemaster constitute Ascham's major works.
The Scholemaster
In 1563 Ascham began the work The Scholemaster, published posthumously in 1570, which ensured his later reputation. Richard Sackville, he states in the book's preface, told him that "a fond schoolmaster" had, by his brutality, made him hate learning, much...