All WINSTON CHURCHILL Quotes about “Education”

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
“Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.”
“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”
“It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.”
“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.”
“I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of the pages ... From Gibbon I went to Macauley. I had learnt The Lays of Ancient Rome by heart, and loved them; and of course I knew he had written a history; but I had never read a page of it ... I accepted all Macauley wrote as gospel, and I was grieved to read his harsh judgements upon the Great Duke of Marlborough.”
“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.”
“Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.”
“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.'”

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