Don't do as I do, do as I say.

[Croesy Blue]

I wouldn't say that makes anyone elite in itself. Children don't choose where they go to school.
That said, as with most of us, his parents attitude to life religion and politics undoubtedly rubbed off on him as they do to a greater or lesser degree on all of us. Even if they rub off in a negative way.

The point is going to a private school gives someone a huge advantage in life so they really can't paint themselves as an everyman.