Winston Churchill Quotes About School

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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”

• 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

• I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

  Winston Churchill

  School, Race, Discouraged

  "A Roving Commission".

• My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, School, Schooling

• 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

• How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

  Winston Churchill

  Educational, Home, School

• 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

• I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was a unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, School, Journey

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

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