Nads -- Alienation, really ?
The brothers ended up educated in Cambridge, the most 'progressive' city in Massachusetts. And they went the Boston Latin School - the 1st public school in America, and it is also BY FAR the most progressive, crunchy granola, hippy-dippy, sandal-wearing, beatnik loving, indoctrination center in the United States.
If these two felt alienated in that city, at that school- then Cambridge is really wrong in their education policies and procedures.