I think boarding school does give you an independence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.
Boarding school is a wicked thing.
The huge advantage of boarding school is that it throws you into the social fire. Every social interaction I've had since then has been a million times easier. Literally, ever since then, it's all been child's play.