Winston Churchill on Education and What It Means for All of Us
Our American Stories
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College and a Churchill scholar, tells the story of Winston Churchill on Education.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:14.2 | And we continue with our American stories. Up next, a story on education and Sir Winston Churchill, told by Dr. Larry |
| 0:23.6 | P. Horne, a Churchill scholar and president of Hillsdale College. |
| 0:28.6 | Winston Churchill, do you know, was a very great man. It's a breathtaking. He had flaws |
| 0:36.6 | and all that, right? |
| 0:40.2 | But nobody like him. |
| 0:42.6 | He writes of Hitler, |
| 0:46.0 | you see these dictators on their pedestals, |
| 0:49.5 | surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. |
| 0:52.1 | On all sides, they are guarded by masses of armed men and cannons and |
| 0:57.0 | airplanes and forts, and they vaunt themselves before the world. Yet in their hearts there is |
| 1:05.0 | unspoken fear. They are afraid of words. |
| 1:14.6 | Words spoken abroad. |
| 1:19.9 | Thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because forbidden. |
| 1:23.5 | These terrify them. |
| 1:27.1 | A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown |
| 1:30.3 | into a panic. A tyrant is the enemy of learning any high thing. That's the worst thing about them. |
| 1:42.3 | And Winston Churchill knew that. |
| 1:45.2 | Didn't go to college. |
| 1:48.6 | I met Sir Martin Gilbert, through whom I met Penelope Arne, in a little library in North London |
| 1:57.0 | called the Viener Library. |
| 1:59.9 | And this library is, we were to meet there, |
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