4 Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes on Education

Geoffrey Chaucer quotes on education

17. Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely, And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe.

18. A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also.

19. For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

36. The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.