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Gosh.
Not exactly an easy question, especially if you contemplate a comparison between education and schooling.
Perhaps I could start by posing the question that asks if a decently competent pianist has been ‘educated’ to learn the piano, or is it something else that has gone on?
Additionally if someone has loads of what is traditionally called knowledge, but has no interpersonal skill could they be said to be educated?
Once you delve into this kind of stuff it becomes even more complicated.
I personally don’t feel comfortable in describing somebody as ‘educated’.
Certainly not Boris Johnson if only because of his problems with truth.
 
You get quite an education at Eton. I should know because my headmaster Tim Young was at Eton and had taught David Cameron. I clashed with Young all the time and ran a petition to play football in games instead of rugby which he ignored. But the problem is that with your education at Eton you get taught to lord it over people and govern them appallingly and it only produces a few people like George Orwell who use their education to fight for the vulnerable and the oppressed.

Eton has produced twenty British Prime Ministers. Eleven of them are shown above.

With twenty Prime Ministers coming from Eton it could be named an Etonocracy. I think Nick Cohen wrote a book about it but I haven't read it.
 
such a pity that it's really difficult to get knives into the chamber of the house of commons now, or boris johnson would have had his kenneth williams moment by now
When I did my protest in an economics select committee waving around Tolstoy's War and Peace and causing a rumpus I don't think they searched me at all! The parliamentary police were surprisingly civil to me when they had hauled me out of the room
 
When I did my protest in an economics select committee waving around Tolstoy's War and Peace and causing a rumpus I don't think they searched me at all!
for the future pls note you'll be taken more seriously by the economics select committee if you wave round eg marx's capital or keynes' general theory of employment, interest and money rather than a fat novel
 
I have found this useful

Thanks but I'll keep it as it is actually quite useful - it provides me with updates on Alexander Boris and what luxury clothes Kate Middleton is wearing that day. And it tells me other important but depressing news about the latest knife or machete murder or paedophile attack or the 176,000 people who go missing every year like poor Sarah Everard.
 
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