Approaching eighty, Churchill warned the House that he was about to speak in Latin, needling the opposition by hoping it would not baffle them. He duly pronounced, “Arma virumque cano” (Arms and the men sing). A Winchester-educated Labour Member asked: “Should it not be ‘man,’ the singular instead of the plural?” Churchill replied: “Little did I expect that I should receive assistance on a classical matter from such a quarter.” The post Teaching Young Winston (2): Latin, Math,...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
“Churchill was a pretty tough proposition for an organized system of education.” Yet he was not nearly the dunce of popular mythology. If only subconsciously, he stressed his school failures to suggest how far he had come. Biographers have accepted his assertions too innocently. In reality he was very good at what he wanted to learn. And he learned what mattered. The post Teaching Young Winston (1): The “Menace” of Education appeared first on The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College.| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College