Steyn was born in Toronto, Canada and educated at King Edward’s School, Birmingham, England, but dropped out of education at 16 and returned to Canada to work as a disc jockey. His first break in journalism came when he was hired as the musical theatre critic for the then newly-established The Independent in London in 1986 (his first review was for The Phantom of the Opera).
The broadest thinkers are remarkably intellegent people who have dodged college-think.