Winston Churchill Quotes about Learning

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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.