Educated at private schools and at Harrow, Winston Churchill did not shine when exposed to the standard curriculum based on classics and to examiners who, as he noted in
My Early Life (1930), "almost invariably" set questions "to which I was unable to suggest a satisfactory answer." A sensitive boy, Churchill suffered from his inability to establish a close relationship with his parents, especially his remote and much admired father. His educational deficiencies and his youthful interest in his battalions of toy soldiers convinced Lord Randolph that his son was destined for a military career, and he was duly enrolled at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He was commissioned in a cavalry regiment, the Fourth Hussars, in February 1895, shortly after the death of his father.
The various elements of Churchill's background were to have strong influences on his lengthy career. In his twenties Churchill began to show the same intense interest in politics that had characterized his father, and until almost the end of his life politics remained the passionate focus of his existence.
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