I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

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

... but that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up to the Prefect Academy - and as far as boys go, to the only expert I know - Suzanne Santry

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.