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Boarding school is a wicked thing.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.

— Mark Romanek

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

— Jasmine Guinness

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

— Lilly Pulitzer

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because it's so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.

— Simon Mawer

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

— Vincent Cassel

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

— Deirdre O'Kane

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.

— Wendy Cope

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.

— Nicholas Stoller