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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.
I think boarding school does give you an independence.
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
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.
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.
Boarding school is a wicked thing.