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People Who Studied Abroad #206:
Alain de Botton, writer and philosopher
From:
Switzerland
Studied:
At the age of eight, he was sent to Dragon School, a boarding school in Oxford (United Kingdom), where he learned to speak English. He also boarded at Harrow School. He completed his undergraduate studies at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and a master’s degree in philosophy at King’s College London. He began, but did not complete, a PhD in French philosophy at the University of London.