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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
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.
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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.
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
I think boarding school does give you an independence.
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
Boarding school is a wicked thing.
I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.