 Soros would sometimes stand at Speakers' Corner lecturing about the virtues of internationalism in Esperanto, which he had learned from his father.Soros took a Bachelor of Science in philosophy in 1951, and a Master of Science in philosophy in 1954, both from the London School of Economics.In a discussion at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council in 2006, Alvin Shuster, former foreign editor of the "Los Angeles Times", asked Soros, "How does one go from an immigrant to a financier?