“The most important thing about education is appetite”
I am asked if Churchill ever said “the most important thing about education is appetite.” He did, but it isn’t easy to find. I checked his Complete Speeches under “education” and came up with an extract from a 1929 speech at Bristol University, where he was Chancellor:
Churchill in academic robes at Harvard, 1943, where he told Americans, “The price of greatness is responsibility.” Behind him is his longtime Scotland Yard bodyguard, Det.-Sgt. Walter Thompson.
“I never myself had the advantage of a university education. I was not thought clever enough to profit by it to the full.…