Winston Churchill Quotes About Learning

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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”

• It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Encouraging

• Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

  Winston Churchill

  Learning, School, Education And Freedom

• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Book, Teaching

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

• The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Moving, Learning

  A radio speech broadcast from London to America on receiving the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws of the University of Rochester, June 16, 1941.

• Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

  Winston Churchill

  Learning, People, Support

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

• By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

  Winston Churchill

  Clever, Latin, Learning

  My Early Life ch. 2 (1930)

• I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

  Winston Churchill

  Baby, Learning, Science

  As cited in "The Life of Politics" by Henry Fairlie, Methuen, pp. 203-204., 1968.

• Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

  Winston Churchill

  Learning, Knowledge, Imagination

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

• 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

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