American journal of education - 1857 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IIL BIOGRAPHY OF ROGER ASCHAM. We shall commence in our next number the publication of Roger Ascham's great work—" The Schoolmaster;" one of the earliest and ... more »most valuable contributions to the educational literature of our language. As an appropriate introduction, we give a sketch of the author's life drawn mainly from Hartley Coleridge's " Northern Worthies," and the " Biographical Dictionary" commenced by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Boger Ascham was the third son of John and Margaret Ascham, and was born in the year 1515, at Kirby Wiske, near Northallerton in Yorkshire, where his father resided as steward to the noble family of Scroope. His parents, who were highly esteemed in their station, after living together for forty-seven years, both died on the same day and nearly at the same hour. Their son Roger displayed from his childhood a taste for learning, and was received into the family of Sir Anthony Wingfield, who caused him to be educated with his own sons, under the care of their tutor, Mr. Robert Bond ; and in the year 1530, placed him at St. John's College, Cambridge, then the most flourishing in the University. Ascham applied himself 1 particularly to the study of Greek, to which a great impulse had recently been given by the dispersion of the learned Greeks throughout Europe, in consequence of the taking of Constantinople. lie made great proficiency in Greek as well as Latin, and he read Greek lectures, while yet a youth, to students still younger than himself. He took the degree of A. 13. in February, 1534, and on the 23d of the next month was elected fellow of his college, through the influence of "To conclude, let this, amongst oilier motives, make schoolmasters careful in (heir place, thai the eminences of their scholars have commend...« less