"I dropped out in ninth grade. If I went all the way to twelfth, I would have had a high school degree, which is like... the bare minimum for a lot of jobs. Then there's, um. Community college, which gives a two-year degree... I forget what it's called. And four-year colleges give you a bachelor's degree, which is the bare minimum for a lot of other jobs. And then you can go to grad school to become a doctor or a lawyer or an MBA asshole or a teacher, or to get a master's degree or PhD. And that's just in the United States." Magnus plucks a stalk of grass and rolls it between his fingers. "My Uncle Randolph had a PhD in something or another. Before he got fired, he taught at Harvard, which is one of the really famous universities of my time... did they have Oxford or Cambridge yet in your England?