Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Goff akapinda chikoro chavakadzi muBasingstoke kutozosvikira ava namakore masere. Pashure pacho, akapinda St Aubyns School, Rottingdean, uye akatanga paEton College muna September 1939, pakutanga kweHondo Yenyika II. Paaiva paEton, akaisa pfungwa dzake pamitauro yekare nenhau, achivada kupfuura zvidzidzo zvesayenzi. Ikoko, Henry Ley, muridzi weorchestra akanga aridza pakugadzwa kwaMambo George VI
, vakakurudzira kuda kwake piyano uye vakamudzidzisa kuridza. Akasiya Eton muna December 1944, agamuchira kupiwa kunonoka kwekugamuchirwa kuNew College, Oxford, mushure mokunge apedza basa rake rechiuto.