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Boarding school was a really pivotal moment. Before I went there, I was so happy. I'm not sure I was ready for it. I…

— Adwoa Aboah

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It…

— Alice Englert

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going…

— Jared Harris

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

— Lilly Pulitzer

When I left London and my parents split up it crushed me, to be honest. It was really, really hard for me. I remember…

— Darren Bent

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

— Rupert Everett

I had a comfortable, middle-class upbringing and went to boarding school when I was five.

— Esme Young

I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third…

— Geraldine Brooks

I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With…

— Paul O'Grady

I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents,…

— Dennis Banks

Life at home wasn't very good and I had really left by the time I was 16 and didn't go back until after Cambridge…

— Roger Scruton

I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked…

— Caitlin Flanagan