His sense of being educated is his defence against disappointment.
Radek Sikorski, the Oxford-educated defence minister, plans internet auctions for defence procurement contracts.
Not even the current education secretary, Justine Greening, the first occupant of that office to have been educated at a comprehensive, mounted a convincing defence.
But cities such as Ankara and Istanbul have substantial populations of modern, educated men and women who are robust in defence of their rights.
Almost none of Pakistan's articulate and educated liberal voices have dared speak out in his defence.
US-born but educated mainly in the UK, Bennett sprang to the defence of Hunt after the BBC1 controller was the subject of a controversial personal attack in the Daily Mail.
Shawn, who was educated at private schools before going to Harvard and Oxford, posits a defence based on sincerity.
Earlier this year Mr Savater, the philosopher, together with a diverse group of public figures ranging from Placido Domingo, a tenor, to Iker Casillas, Real Madrid's goalkeeper, signed a "manifesto" in defence of the right of citizens to be educated in Spanish.
In court, she remembers the defence barrister asking: "Do you expect me to believe that an educated young woman of nineteen wouldn't scream for help, wouldn't bang on the wall?
His plays are full of highly educated, highly literate, professional people who find that words fail them and retreat into irony as a defence.
Governments invest in physical infrastructures – for example roads, schools, and defence – that have the character of public goods as well as in society's "knowledge base" consisting of a generally educated labour force and specific expertise in science and technology.
