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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like roller coasters. I don't like bungee jumping. I don't like snow boarding really fast down the hill. I am not someone who is an adrenaline junkie.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to Watford at such a young age and leaving everyone behind and being around new people was very different for me. Adapting was a challenge. I was staying in a boarding school and in a different culture that I wasn't used to. It was very hard to adapt, build confidence and change my attitude.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'Call the Midwife'; it's an absolute gem of a programme. Filming the Christmas special and then the second series felt like going back to a boarding school that you really love and is full of friends.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.
- Hardship
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- Nov 07, 2020
The justification for early boarding is based on a massive but common misconception. Because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, the founders of the system believed that emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough. It does the opposite.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my first night at boarding school, I felt entirely alone. I was shocked, frightened and intensely homesick, but I soon discovered that expressing these emotions, instead of bringing help and consolation, attracted a gloating, predatory fascination.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess if you have had a good education as opposed to someone who hasn't been to school, you start off on this journey having studied Shakespeare for years and years or studied classics. I suppose why people see this big divide - the boarding school boys getting all the roles - is because they feel like some people have had a head start.
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- Nov 07, 2020
). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.
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- Nov 07, 2020