Education Quotes by Winston Churchill

The most important thing about education is appetite.

— Winston Churchill

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

— Winston Churchill

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

— Winston Churchill

“Love to learn—hate to be taught.”

— Winston Churchill

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn…

— Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

— Winston Churchill

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves,…

— Winston Churchill

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in…

— Winston Churchill

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on…

— Winston Churchill

A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more…

— Winston Churchill

I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may…

— Winston Churchill

The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should…

— Winston Churchill

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them…

— Winston Churchill

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill