Pastreich lọ si ile-iwe giga Lowell High School ni San Francisco, ti o pari ni ọdun 1983. O bẹrẹ awọn ẹkọ rẹ ni Ile-ẹkọ giga Yale, nibi ti o ti pari pẹlu B.A. ni Chinese ni ọdun 1987, ati lakoko ile-ẹkọ giga ti o kẹkọọ ni ilu okeere ni Ile-ẹkọ giga National Taiwan. Pastreich gba MA ni iwe-kikọ ti o ṣe afiwe ni Ile-ẹkọ giga ti Tokyo ni ọdun 1991, nibi ti o ti kọ iwe-ẹkọ ti oluwa, Edo kôki bunjin Tanomura Chikuden: Edoô Muy no shiga " (The Late Literatus Tanomura Chikuden; The Uselessness of Painting and Poetry), ni kikun ni ede Japanese.
Yunifásítì Illinois ní Urbana<unk>Champaign, Yunifásítì George Washington, àti Solbridge International School of Business