Backgrounds Quote by Ella Baker

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly…

— Sydney Brenner

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

— John Bright

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

— Henry Cavill

My mum was working in London, so I went to school there until I was 12. But every holiday would be in Scotland, and…

— Rachael Stirling

I was twelve when I went to boarding school in Edinburgh.

— Jamie Parker

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt…

— Sam Houston

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted…

— Stephen Mangan

My mother had a fifth-grade education when my father passed away. I was 12 years old - but my mother took on the task…

— Mark Robinson

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

My dad was in the service, so I went to 12 schools in 13 years.

— Jay Ellis

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

— Gordon Bell

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

— Esme Young