but what of the old boy network, sir? I am aware only of the PayPal mafia in these surrounds.

I wouldn't worry too much about those young chaps, I do hear they are quite civil once they've had a good talking to. The boys from the club are the ones giving them money to play with after all. I'll take it up with them next time we take tea at the countryhouse.

Righto, old sport. Where do you summer?

My villa over on Port-au-Patois, don't you know.

Out of curiosity, were does one obtain a classical education?

If you need to ask, then you don't need to know.

He means "... you needn't know."

i think that means you read philosophy, math, Latin and Greek: Homer, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Pascal, some Whitehead, Russell. Some Sartre and Camus and Nietzsche, Heidegger if you want a tortured existence. You want to go to St Johns college, i think, maybe Univ of Chicago .

With a rigorous math background and some linguistics , you have the foundation of a good programming career.

A classical education is more about technique than material or school. The standard education model is that students are told what is true and what is not, and then they need to regurgitate what they've been told. The classical approach is for a student to try to understand the material themselves, then interact with a teacher and fellow classmates through a discussion format based on the Socratic method to develop their understanding.

Here is an example of this technique at work with elementary school children, teaching them binary numbers: http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html

Not where but when.

I've just heard about this place, don't know anyone who went there: http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/

Boarding school in London, economics in Denmark afterwards - complete with ugly uniforms and all.

Not really something you should strive for though...