Winston Churchill Quotes About Education

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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Speech at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 6 Sept. 1943

• I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Teaching, College

• Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Firsts, Characteristics

  "The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill".

• No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Fighting, Political

  Winston Churchill (1947). “Great Contemporaries”

• In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Latin, Writing

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

• The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Community, Adequate

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

• Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Learning, Progress Of Society

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

• I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Believe, Flower

  Sir Winston Churchill (1961). “The unwritten alliance: speeches 1953-1959”

• The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Country, Privilege

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

• It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Littles, Firsts

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

• How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, School, Years

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

• Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Book, Mean

• I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Heart, Rome

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission" by Winston Churchill, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.

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