A Quote by Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill on cleverness, honor, learning, and nobility

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.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill : British prime minister during World War II, winner of Nobel Prize for literature 1953
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Source: Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930
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