- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boarding Quotes
Looking back on boarding school years.
These Home quotes look back on boarding school life, from the reasoning parents give for sending children away to the sheltered viewing habits and unexpected hobbies that filled those years.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Kite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy - a boarding school in Michigan - for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the 'Spring Awakening' tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Kentucky, and went to boarding school outside Boston at Phillips Academy Andover for two years.
- Every Sunday
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sent to boarding school - a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday evening in the winter he would show us films in the chapel. He couldn't afford a sound projector, so we saw silent films, which you could then still rent from photographic shops.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I wanted when I left school was independence. I had been at boarding school for many years. When you're boarding, nothing is your own and your whole day is scheduled. You're told when to sleep, what to eat and when. You have zero independence.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five years and got stability for the first time when I was sent to a boarding school, Rishi Valley. I lived outside of a cantonment-style living and was among an eclectic mix of kids and got exposed to books and other things.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think you can go to boarding school and come out without feeling a little repressed - yes, it does leave its mark on you.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and I suffered from dyslexia quite badly, but they had a very good department there which specialised in it.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020