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I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to King Edward VI High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

I went to high school in Stockton, CA.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.