Boarding Schools - what are they like?
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2016
- For two years, I went to a British public boarding school, and recently, I attended a reunion. I talk about them.
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It was difficult in the edit to achieve the balance I wanted, but this can be redressed in later videos. I recorded a few more pieces to camera and took more shots of the school. I don't feature the people there because this was a personal project, and it would be unfair to involve them in something they may find expresses opinions and ideas with which they disagree. Besides, I wanted to talk to old friends, not poke a camera in their faces.
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I particularly like the particular part when he was particularly particular
I particularly agree with your quite particular opinion on this very particular particular video
brian ahh yes, particularly particular particulate!! Particularly of course...
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And I particularly wait for the particular parts in this particular video that you particularly said that you like it in your particular comment.
Pecking peculiar peacock perching on the pretty porch
So basically it's a prison for rich peoples children.
+Григорий Александров Yeah lockup the spoiled little s***'s. 😂😂😂😂😂
And like all prisons, it has the downside of not preparing it's inmates all too well for real life.
Except prisoners usually have less money and options when they come out, instead of more.
Plenty of education facilities in many prisons in western nations.
If you're filthy rich, why not ship them off so you can work on your golf handicap? Let someone else deal with them while you can take a long-overdue vacation with your spouse. Sounds like it has some perks, in spite of what I'll assume to be an astronomical cost for each year.
Yeah, I went to two Australian high schools, one was private and the other was public. They were prisons instead of being actual schools.
In those schools. There were horrible teachers and horrible behaviour from students. The bathrooms were unsanitary and the second high school I went to, cigarettes are occasionally found by students but the teachers did absolutely nothing.
Yes, I did meet some nice teachers and students. It was just too bad that they have to spend time at those schools. I drop out of High School after failing to cope.
“i’m just going to mow the lawn dear. i’ll be back in june”
i loved that part lol
And that very posh accent. 😂
Now: "I'm just going to buy some milk dear. i'll be back in-..."
That is what the man said
Lol.
Can we talk about how ballsy it is to make a scathing video review while standing in the location
Yes exactlyy
Was it really that scathing?
Was slightly worried they were going to kick him out or tell him to record elsewhere. It was also so echoey so pretty much anyone there would have heard him. xd
Whats ballsy about it?
Yup
Legend says he is still spinning in that field
I'm still queasy!
Actually he left and lives in some of the tanks in the tank museum
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This is the funniest thing anyones ever commented XD
How else does the earth rotate?
"I'm just going to mow the lawn dear, I'll be back in June" - This had me in stitches.
Hahaha 😂😂
Why do people always exaggerate ridiculously on the internet? It was a witty remark but lets be honest you weren't "in stitches" were you? If you genuinely laughed uncontrollably at that joke then perhaps you are insane.
Harry Burrows and you must be incredibly fun at parties.
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@@cher4057 - "you must be incredibly fun at parties" - this had me in stitches, I am dying, I can't breath, laughing my fucking ass off.
Must be quite the sight seeing this man spinning around in a field dictating into a camera from afar
Better than him being echoy in the corridor talking about if boarding schools should exist or not. xd
No one cares about people photographing or filming themselves in public anymore.
This is weird to me in Australia, we call your public schools private schools, public schools are those payed for by the state.
same in canada
Same in India
Same in NZ
Same in Indonesia
I think it’s like that almost everywhere. Same in Germany and he also explained it in the video :>
The way you dress, sound and look makes it seem like you're about to go on an expedition to some tropical land in the 1700's, funded by the empire on a mission to serve her Majesty
Poutanas Malakopoulos
Trust me, they were way more posh back then. Although they were probably on missions from his majesty, if we're in the 1700s
I think the second half of 19 centry is more appropriate
well that was the original plan of it all
i laughed so hard at this i
thats about the era these schools exist in
"Madam i went to a boarding school... And then i went to therapy"
-Geoffrey
Legendary
Ah yes
There's something called boarding school therapy ..
@@sandratsang9546 Nothing is as posh as sending your children to a little comfy prison
@@DutchPlanDerLinde mhm.
My friend told me that he felt his parents got rid of him by sending him to boarding school. He was bullied due to his ethnic background too. Kids could be cruel.
my parents sent me to a boarding school just for me to do everyday things on my own and not rely on my parents lmao
That's what a lot of (British) parents do with their pesky kids indeed.
They pay school right?
@@limousinecar230 a lot
We learn life there... communication is key to success. If you cannot deal with bulling, life will consume you literally. I learnt a lot when my parents sent me far from home for first time. We called it "independence" and self development. Stop crying, be a man!
I had sort of the opposite culture shock, going from a private non boarding Montessori school to a public non boarding school (American). At my old private school we had so much freedom. It’s important to note how our classrooms were arranged: we stayed in the same classroom all day, apart from electives in the afternoon after lunch and recess. In each class there were 3 grades, evenly portioned amongst all classes. There were around 10 tables that could seat 2-4 people in each class. There were materials around the classroom, which we would move about to get, then we would use them to complete the required math work, English, and Science every day. What we did for the subjects was up to us. After we were done with the required amount of work, we could work on anything. Everyone knew everyone, and all 24 of us were friends. We didn’t have lockers but hooks we hung our backpacks on in the main hallway (this was all the way up to high school), we often did projects on our own volition because we had that kind of freedom. We had a massive playground with huge wooden structures, we had class government where we set our own rules (per classroom), we had reading time, we ate lunch in our classrooms, and the 2 teachers would occasionally give small groups of us lessons. We could also request to learn something if we didn’t know it already. If you arrived late, no problem, just finish what you can. There were no standardized tests either!
Compare that to the public school I attended later. Everyday, we had to be in a particular place, at a particular time no exceptions. If you were late you were punished. I couldn’t stand sitting at single desks in a grid all day while the teacher rambled on. We had lockers because stealing was a thing, and there was gum everywhere. No one wanted to do any work, and you couldn’t decide what work to do. At the public school I personally knew perhaps 10 people, while at my old school I personally knew every kid in the entire grade (across all classrooms) and some younger and older kids. Montessori School (I went to Montessori School of Raleigh, others might be different) was paradise. If you ever get a chance to send your kid there, do it for their sake. Start them there young and they will have the largest social network they will ever have. If you read all the way through my ramblings about days gone by, I’m impressed, and thanks.
For anyone who's curious here's a link to their website: www.msr.org
The virtual campus tours in the Our Campuses section give a pretty good idea on what the classrooms and playgrounds were like. Man, looking back through those brought back so many memories :)
But did you actually learn? Did you do well on standardized tests and go to college? It sounds like the Montessori school was fun and filled with freedoms for creativity but did it prepare you for the reality of life which is much more structured?
@@dawnlittle2501 I admit, when I switched in 8th grade it was a bit unpleasant. However, the middle school was more structured than before with different classrooms, yet on a much smaller scale. And yes, I did learn. I learnt more at Montessori than I do in public school. The work was much more advanced in 7th grade than the “work” I got in 8th. When I was in Montessori I wasn’t as smart compared to my peers, (I was an odd case, I have difficulty spelling, and I’m not that good at mathematics. Mind you other kids at Montessori were just fine with those) but in public school I was Einstein compared to the other kids. Disregarding math and spelling lol.
I’m in 11th grade now, so I can’t speak about collage, but a few of my friends from Montessori are in college now and are 100% fine. Also standardized tests aren’t a problem for me, just an annoyance. (They’re not effective at assessing your abilities and put loads of unhealthy stress on students) I would say I am prepared for “the real world”.
Dawn Little to be honest I travelled from a country to another with two very different school system, and I can assure you that school by itself does not teach you any valuable life skill. Like ho to get a job for example. How to build connections/relationships, anyways It doesn’t teach how to survive in society.
@@Brave_Sir_Robin that sounds so cool! But you weren't kidding about the spelling, lol! (It's spelled, college 🤭)
@@dandeleon2764 SEE?! Its fixed.
Everyone complains about autocorrect but for me whoever invented it is a national hero
Miss Peregrin's Home for PARTICULAR Children
@acan thus r/woooosh
@acan thus i was saying he made a joke and it went over your head... Lmao
@acan thus Wow. But good for you to let that frustration out
acan thus Imagine writing an entire essay because you’re mad a joke didnt fit your standards.
acan thus you think that by writing a bunch of paragraphs you will stop stupidity? who knows they might not even read it
Him:”Not just a few horses and a homemade jump”
My school: not enough money to afford real paper
My school: Not enough time and money to give their attention on student lunches consisting of cardboard and real paper flavoring.
mashallah tbark allah alhamdulillah inshallah better astagfirullah
@@sysmixy335 my high school would literally get pizza from some chain pizza restaurant and sell it to the students for lunch for $2 per slice, making a rather large profit
@@dELTA13579111315 SAME!! And it doesn't taste good anymore!!
My school ran out of paper, staples, and recess equipment. Ever played Badminton with a racket made in the 70's? Not a fun time.
As someone who goes to a private boarding school: yes. Especially the whole sport part. I'm not too much into fitness here, and while we are given more freetime, the pressure to be a good athlete is astounding
Here it's broken I mean you can literally learn the meaning of a prison
you need the stick
Shame. Not all private boarding schools require you to be a good athlete and likely varies from house to house within the school with some having more tradition of winning all the sporting cups and others going for music or debating cups or, simply, not chasing any collective glory. However, the mens sana in corpore sano model is a pretty good one with people who do exercise usually doing better in academic and artistic activities also. I know of one school where everyone is involved in some sort of sporting activity but it can be at any appropriate level and it benefits the naturally less coordinated at least as much as the natural early developer ball hitters and runners - there is no great glory associated with being the best but there is encouragement to be the best you can be
To be fair, it directly effects mental cognition and academic performance if you go to class shortly after cardiovascular exercise. I believe we're talking about an increase in overall brain performance of around 15% or so, so It's massive
So when you are being bullied, imagine never being able to escape from that day and night. No one to really talk to about your day to day struggles and feelings. Way to go parents!
Yep. And if you have someone who has it out for you, watch out. 😖
Everyone now understand Snape better )
Yes you're right, and I believe teens need their parents more than teachers and classmates at that very delicate age.
Is it really that different from going to school day after day?
Idk I liked boarding school
What if Harrry Potter was just a psycholgical thriller about the trauma of boarding school?
animayo That would be amazing.
😐 mind= blown
Who cares, really, useless and pathetically written book.
*books
ahhhhh nooooooo don't out that in my head one my my fav fandoms
"..... for the less sporty, it was less good." 🤣 🤣 Spent 8 years in a boarding school and know exactly how it feels.
Same, my school was on the north yorkshire moors, if the rugby pitches were waterlogged (which by virtue of being at the bottom of a valley and the school being at the top, plus the fact we were on the moors meant that it was likely) we had to do cross country runs....Oh god I hated those runs, 7 miles across the North Yorkshire moors in winter....just what 12 year old me wanted to be doing....
My school is on a hill in rutland. Lots of walking/ running everywhere
Which school were you at? I was at Dulwich College in the 60s and in the second 15 for the school; perhaps we played you? Personally I have to say that I rather loved school, though in my day it was a tougher proposition than now, I believe.
@@TheDavephillips I go to Dulwich now . Still a great school aha
@@yungmil3708 It certainly is, we've produced more rugby international caps (including loads of All Blacks) than any other school.
I was in Grenville House and loved every minute of my life in school; more than fifty years ago now.
My sister's a deputy head of a boarding school! We never went to one, but I remember as a kid wanting to go to one! I think my sister and I read too much Enid Blyton!
Same! Apparently, when I was 6, I read so much Enid Blyton that I started speaking like I was from the 1940s!
Same here, but the reality seems to be bit disappointing.
Hah! Yes. My daughter read a lot of EB and wanted to go to boarding school. She even had a chance to go to one with a scholarship. Fortunately, she got sick and couldn't go and that scholarship was taken because we applied late. I had been to an excellent private boarding school who could assess the ones we visited for her and raise pertinent questions
I keep my opinion firm that shipping your kids off to private schools without a support network is just a way to lessen your parental duties
As someone who was "shipped" to a private boarding school, it doesn't mean students don't have a strong relationship with their parents. It's not like cell phones and facetime don't exist. It actually helped me value the time spent with my family, while also teaching me how to be independent and form my own opinions and values.
To be honest i love being in boarding school and i still love my parents. I just got to spend more time with friends when i grow up but also everything was provided for and the environment was conducive for me to study and not worry about anything else. It also make me more independant. At 16 /17 years old i was already travelling the world alone. I also think that most teenagers even at home would want to hang out with their friends more then their parents anyway.
Incorrect
I understand that's probably how it feels for the children but the idea is thar these places provide a much higher level of education then what's locally available. That said there is a great deal of bullying but you get that in public schools as well.
I'm always shocked when people say they didn't have an Observatory, Climbing wall, Music school, Squash courts, Swimming pool, Chapel, Printers studio, Crimean War, Boer War, WW1 & WW2 memorial to fallen students and on site equestrian facilities at their school.
Well, my school did have a climbing wall...
Had a swimming pool (partial boarding too Ellington Hall was one of the two) in the one where I went to, where Richard Hammond was educated for a period of time and the former leader of the Tories William Hague lol (he was a boarder I think, my dad many years later being a house master there for a while).
My school in Poland have roman ruins in it that's literally there just for decoration.
We have an elevator in my school. Check and mate
of all the things I listed, my school had as many elevators as it did black students... that is to say none. well played sir.
Hogwarts for muggles
So no magic, no future predictions class, no flying,....just homework.
Sounds dreadful.
Non magic folk
Aditya Sanjay In America, I heard that Harvard University’s dinning hall looks similar to the Hogwarts’ dining hall
Park ChimMin it was filmed there so yes
Back in the early 70s, I spent my final two years of high school at an elite boarding school for boys in the American West on an extensive campus that had once been a cattle ranch. It was, as you stated, like visiting a foreign country. I was no longer a "junior" in "high school", but a "fifth former" ensconced in Penrose House (the dorm for upper classmen). We no longer had "teachers" and "principals", but "masters" and a "headmaster". If we wanted to eat, we had to dress for dinner in coat and tie, and periodically do duty as servers in the dining room, which was located in an elegant old Spanish hacienda. On the other hand, although academically rigorous, it was not as tightly structured as the British "public school" school you describe here. In addition to my studies, I got in a good bit of skiing and hiking, during the two winters I was there and travelled internationally as well. I brushed elbows with the sons of millionaires and billionaires as well as scholarship kids like my roommate, a black kid from Compton who went on to attend Howard University, and I had other friends who ended up at Princeton, Harvard and Yale. All said, I got a terrific education and came out of the place very well prepared for college.
Overall look back fondly on many of my experiences there. That, in no small part being due to the fact that the decision to attend boarding school had ultimately been my choice ...in order to gain some distance from my father. Ironically I have spent the last 28 years as an underpaid public high school teacher at a poor, largely minority "Title 1" school. As a parent, I could never have afforded to have sent my own children to the schools that I attended. And, you know, I don't regret my career choice one bit!!!
Wow!! What was the name of the boarding school you attended? That experience sounds amazing! You're so lucky, my dream is to attend a boarding school one day. 😁
My own UK boarding school had chapel services most days. 600+ male voices blasting out The Magnificat about "He hath exalted the poor and the rich he hath sent empty away" and similar stuff got to me. I spent my working life in one of the most multiple deprived areas of the UK, raised my family there, and it was great. Haven't been back to the school often but when I have, it seems that many other boys had similar careers of service and duty and seeking the welfare of the city
Looks like you needed an Invisibility Cloak for you to roam around. This would be good for somebody who likes structure and regularity.
In absolute honesty, it was designed to train people for the army and the colonial service. It was very good for that, since at a very early age, boarders learned how not to feel their own, or other people’s suffering. And to be in a particular place at a particular time for a particular reason.
There is a story about a prisoner of war in WW2 arriving at some horrendous camp in Burma. Within minutes, an old chum from school greets him.
“Don’t worry old boy! It’s not half as bad as boarding school!”
Not true, i am perfectly fine and go to a boarding school, the schedule isn't strict either.
@@Nulevia boarding schools now are different to boarding schools 70+ years ago. I'm boarding and I enjoy it, but it's always fun to make jokes about how bad a thing was even if it wasnt too bad
@@Nulevia I doubt boarding schools these days are like the ones in late 19th century. They would beat the shit outta you back then
Now they train sociopathic incompetent future MPs wot wot.
Now they train politicians
"Some people today think it will _all_ be like Hogwarts." So nasty, bullying children, _and_ terrorist attacks.
And absolutely garbage staff
@Ryono Amen to THAT one dude!
And tons of racism
Ghosts running rampart.
Staff that carve letters into students hands.
"I'm just going to mow the lawn, dear. I'll be back in June."
I went to a "public school". Downs were: classes in the evening and Saturday morning, athletics were a requirement, tough grading, very small social groups of friends. The upside was that when got to college it was ez-pz.
"You don't enjoy freedom until it gets taken away from you"
Well technically if freedom is taken away from you, you still don't enjoy it.
That's why communism sounds so good to retards nowadays.They don't value the freedom capitalism and democracy gives them and when communism comes they rise up against the oppression because they realized how horrible communism is.
But...they're children!!!
Vladimir Dan Nope. Communists usually believe that "real" communism will not take their freedom away. They either believe that all societies that labeled themselves "communist" were either not "real" communist and did interpret Marx incorrectly or that they were corrupted by external forces (usually capitalist countries). In some cases they even believe that living in those societies was/is actually great and that all the stories about poverty and oppression are just propaganda lies.
No offence, but if you really want to critise a political ideology, you should know how it works and how most people following it justify their commitment. Otherwise you'll just spread plattitudes.
But the problem is all communist nations were not truly communist. Since according to Karl Max, no nation in communism's world.
I'm just going to mow the lawn dear I will be back in June
I was sipping coffee when he said that and I laughed so hard that I spit my coffee out onto my computer keyboard and screen!
I read your comment the very exact same time that he said it! Lmao!
"Where do you go to school?"
Um. Here? With you?
I went to a bording school that was a ship (1960's). (TS Arethusa) It was meant to prepare you for life at sea - military or merchant navy. It was run by a children's charity. There was three ways you could go there; If in "care" you could volunteer - or elect - or request; .... you could be sent there by the law courts if you were a juvenile repeat offender; ....or you could be tricked by parents who had had enough of you... into applying for a scollarship! (That was me.)
It was FOUL!! Bullying, rape, disgusting food, (and not much of it anyway) & unbelivable horrible living conditions. (age12 to 14)
Then I went into the Royal Navy. While all my fellow "conscripits" at "Ganges" were crying their eyes out at 15 and first time away from home and how horrid military life was- I thought I'd gone to heaven! Anyway - After 9 years Navy I bought my release - if you joined at 15 you had to "sign up" for 15 years, and do them or you did not get a pension. (I didn't ..& even thou I was "special service" (Clearence Diver Bomb Disposal) I still get no pusser's (Navy) pension.) Bastards!
Then I went to work Off-shore on the rigs and diving ships - BORDING FACTORYS & BORDING OFFICES !!!
Anyway .... I've retired now with a good nest egg and am compleatly normal. An mostly happy.
An any one say otherwise I'll rip all ya legs off an jam them up ya hole. OK!?!
😂
Dear lord that sounds horrific. Also yeah, bastards all the way through, service is service childhood contracts be damned.
Bastards indeed. And I’m sorry you had to go there…thank you for your service.
There was rape?
"Perhaps on another planet somewhere, the norm is for adults to live and work in boarding factories and boarding offices." - Yes, Japan.
Eisbehr
This only lasts a generation, then the whole family moves to live in the city, and the countryside is abandoned full of empty small villages.
Happened around the world, its just that in some places its happening today rather than 50 years ago.
and during the industrial revolution, Pullman was like a boarding factory.
I spent the last week in a hotel ferrying to and from an office.
I went out to a local Mall one night, the only time I was anywhere else the entire week. :(
It sucks to live too close to work. Makes it very difficult to play hooky.
In China too. Almost all high schools are boarding schools. There are lots of facilities like Foxconn (infamous for its absurdly high suicide rate) which are basically boarding factories.
"Public" in Britain means "private and expensive, affordable only by the rich" in America. Go figure.
US: private vs public
UK: state vs public
***** You got them switched, son. Public is private in the UK, so you've got your analogy switched. Typical Brit!
John Karavitis I know it is. It's just the difference in dichotomy that separates them concept-wise.
Typical American thinks he's better then everyone :)
joken3000 He "knows" he's better than everyone. Remember that.
I can tell by the way you're talking, you were a Hufflepuff
Hahaha, yeah,but he is kind of talking like a ravenclaw
Well maybe he's great at finding things
I feel like he’s more of a ravenclaw
@@lpl723 nah, all the oddballs are hufflepuff
maybe he's Huffleclaw
Great video. I went to a well known boarding school for sixth form in the 1980s (after a state school) and felt rather similar to you. In hindsight it was a better experience than it felt at the time, it opened doors and eventually the skills I learned there probably contribiuted quite a bit to helping me make my way in the world. I wouldn't have chosen to send my kids away to school except - drum roll ... I did. My spouse is a furriner and we ended up coming back to the UK (fro working overseas) when our eldest was 8 (my wife being implacably opposed to boarding at the time), with the idea of plonking him in a day prep school and then maybe a a day (state or independent) boarding school. Lo and behold he, and his younger sibling, are now both boarding at my old school (from 13, and loving it, as it turns out), and my youngest is trying to get in. It is of course a totally different place from when I was there: everyone is very nice and there is a massive emphasis on being kind, which we rather like. Overall, and despite being a consumer of private education for three children, however, I think the UK system is indefensibly elitist, which although in my heart is something I disagree with, is in my hypocritical head also why I send my kids there. My excuse - I've experienced some pretty rough English state schools, and while I would be wiling to pay money to improve them, I'm not prepared to put my kids into a lab experiment to see if it would work out. That's only for the truly committed, the impoverished, or the truly pretentious metropolitan liberal poseurs. I also have a "working overseas" excuse, which is my trump card if anyone tries to argue (even though, in reality, I'm ambivalent). There is no doubt, however, that if you have the money the top English boarding schools are about as elite as you can get anywhere in the world, and if your child can thrive in that environment, she or he will receive the best education on the planet, with the best facilities, and acquire a social assuredness the likes of which you would struggle to match anywhere else.
"What? You don't have a Olympic-sized swimming pool, complete scientific research wing, astronomical observatory, golf course, duplex apartment, and cathedral in your school?"
Jokes aside, the private school I got a scholarship for really does have half of these things. I was shook.
There is a difference between normal and boarding school. Boarding is not about making about your life comfortable. It's about making your life hell so that u don't shit your pants in real life
Yep it's normal.
@@karman103batth4 It's both. :( They put out these amazing facilities and 118 acres of land owned by the school just to rEaSSurE the parents, yet their aim in life is to make our lives miserable.
my school has a semi Olympic pool cause if it was Olympic sized they would have to lend it to the government for a set number of hours a week
Rich bastards, ours can't even afford pencils. :(
So basically life in the army, with less death.
Very well put.
Nothing like the military and if you think it's is you have clearly never served.
The key difference is that providing a good education is not what they do in the military, except perhaps at the military academies. For the grunts, independent thinking is contrary to the mission.
Yep
Life in the army is a military boarding school. It's a boarding school on steroids.
"Knee deep in other people's blond children"
Not the younglings lmao
I have worked in a "boarding plant" and I hope to go back. These types of places are generally fairly remote. You live in trailers stacked on top of each other and everybody gets their own rooms which are just big enough for a bed and dresser. The bathroom area is usually shared with about 80 other guys and you get 8 toilets and 8 showers. You get up in the morning and go to the mess hall to eat and there is a bag up room to pack your food for the day. Then everyone gets on busses which drive you to your assigned work area which can take anywhere between 10 minutes and 50 minutes. You then work your 12 hours, get back on a bus which brings you back to camp. The work site and camp are fenced off with chain link and barbed wire and there are check points at each entrance.
After 21 days you either fly or drive home and then come back 7 days later.
If you work in a mine in a more remote area then you will be gone for about three months and go home for one.
"Do you really want to spent a large amount of time of your life being so controlled?"
Is this a question for Asian viewers or something.
I feel offended by those colonials
Ahahaha
my parents get to choose
Haha... I got to choose what I wanted and needed.
hahahahahaha
I've been in a boarding school for five years..
I've been doing particular things with particular people at a particular time for so long I doesn't even remember what my bedroom look like when I graduate.
Would be interested to know which school you went to? I have been in a military boarding school for even years years now and am currently in upper sixth. It certainly is regimented and particular but I think you get used to it. There are elements of it where you perhaps get more freedom then one would at home, such as when one chooses to do their prep and so on. But I'm general, I would say that the routine is very effective and good. I have heard of people having bad experiences of boarding, although I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here.
I wouldn’t last at a boarding school. I need time to cope and i need to go out and about. I have to give you some credit
@@GuidoRowe yeah I kinda hated the school when I got admitted in lower 3 . Now I look back and thank the school for making a man out of me.
I also went to a boarding school and at first I was scared but it turned out awesome.
I even ended up being the timekeeper.
I loved ringing the bell at 4/5am to wake people up and making them go to sleep at 9/10pm
In my boarding school we didn't have any help so we cleaned everything ourselves
Not to be disrespectful, but how do you even do that? I can’t imagine myself in that situation, well... now that i do, i would probably be deep in depression or breaking the rules all the time. How do you cope with stuff like that?
Thank you for reminding me what it was like in an English boarding school. I have now decided not to go back to the reunion now. I think it is for the better. I woke up with bad dreams, in the dream I was a school boy in an alienated country living a regimented life not knowing what I will be facing when I leave the place. I love your review and sharing of your experience. They are so many things in common with what we have experienced.
Opened this video on a whim and did not expect to see the town centre I walk through every day haha
So, I went to a boarding school (in Canada, so not nearly as snooty, or nice) and I get *exactly* what you're saying about the regimentation. I went to a regular high school for the first 3 years, and then off to boarding school.
My trick? When I was sick of having every second of my day planned out for me out of my control, and didn't feel like going to school on a particular day, I actually got up, hitch-hiked to the train station, and caught the train to Ottawa, about 2 hours away, and couch-surfed until I felt like coming back, or until my dad one time flew from Africa to convince me to go back.
I was eventually expelled... For smoking.
My favourite part of the note to my parents was the headmaster saying "Matthew does not seem at all upset about being expelled"
Matt Rose I’m just imaging a whole lot of students parading around the principles office in order to get expelled. I don’t actually approve of smoking but hell that might actually work. (Better then attempted suicide or successful suicide. Which actually happened at my old school.
no way i wonder why?
Matt Rose I always wanted to go to a public boarding school.
How retarded must a school be to actually expel someone for smoking? I mean, unless they are like 12 years old, what the fuck is the problem?
Possibly it might destroy the school image... And schools don't wanna risk that.
Its so much like a prison.
Hell, I think in some norwegian prisons murderers actually get _more_ freedom than this...
You are correct. This school is more restrictive and nicer to be in than many prisons...
That's fucked up.
***** Well look at crime re-offending rates in norway compared to your country and reconsider your opinion.
+Edward Armstrong Yeah forcing people to live in hell will surely leave them as well-adjusted human beings who won't commit any horrific crimes.
See the difference is that here in Scandinavia we believe that prison is there to help reform people so they can live proper lives again, while in for example the US it's a storage warehouse so the owners can make money.
I think you are both right in a sense. We need to have lofty easy going prisons to help people rehabilitate and we need to execute anyone what has committed a crime so bad they would stay in prison too long to ever be rehabilitated.
It seems like the most humane option to me.
Loved the humorous presentation. Very entertaining indeed !!
This channel's charm are the random tangents.
You honestly have the most amazing voice ever
If his posh voice was a product of boarding school, I'd say it was worth it.
equistoryni it's the only English accent that doesn't piss me off
equistoryi : sound just like Neil Gaiman - the author.
equistoryni you can only achieve that accent from boarding schools and universities like Cambridge/oxford (I’m 100% serious)
Max Mikkelsen how doesn’t that accent piss you off 😂
I remember reading Harry Potter and being glad that I got to go to high school and then go home with my family and sleep in my bed in a room by myself. My school life and home life was separated.
Lucky for u boarding school worst moment in my life 2011 until 2015 🤮🤮
I loved my boarding school
I don't understand the size of the dorms in the movies. They are only about the size of a house, are they only for one year group?
Unfortunately everyone kind of has that problem with online school. Not nearly as bad tho
I actually attended an English boarding school and it was pretty amazing. Granted, I wasn’t a full boarder as I didn’t stay on weekends but the grounds were stunning. My biggest complaint is probably how many shit teachers they hired that didn’t know what the fuck they were doing. However it was a lot of fun always seeing your friends and sneaking around to each others dormitories. Their was the odd prick, especially amongst the boys but what school doesn’t have a few dickheads right? It wasn’t bitchy at all either. The school was pretty strict when it came to some situations but it was reasonable. I’m seventeen now and still attending (so I’m unsure as to why I referred to it in the past tense) and the school year feels like a family, it really does. I’m just afraid then when I eventually attend university I’ll be sick of living onsite, although it’s a pretty different experience.
You got the freedom bit spot on, I was trying to explain that to someone who went to a day comprehensive
My Boarding school is so different lol, we have our own en-suite rooms, and we can go to the common room any time in the night! But yeh, the rest is about true
The privilige is that you make good contacts who will help you a lot
Not really a privilege. It's an opportunity that you choose to take or leave.
heh... yeah if you get along with them.
Nah, most of them are rich snobs who will never even lend you a penny without asking for 2 back. Sorry bud, just the truth. And I know this from 4 years experience in a boarding school.
@@domino52o26 It's a privilege because only a few people have that opportunity.
Domino52o it’s an opportunity your parents buy for you
I had a Brit friend who went to boarding schools like this one; being quite the eccentric and non-conformist he was always very proud to tell me that he was kicked out twice!
Holden Caufield lives!
my five kids loved it, they all went to prep school at 7
This was such a video. I just refound it. You this chaps.
I think it depends a lot on the particular school. I went to boarding school and actually miss the wonderful times we had. My cousins attended a different boarding school and hated it. The school I attended was a much smaller school and we actually had plenty of free time to go swimming or hiking or do whatever we wanted to, within reason of course. There was a good relationship between the kids and the teachers, and several years later, many still keep in touch with each other and reminisce about the good times. Yes, there was structure, but after I left school, while I found it easy to take care of myself, I was amazed at how others of my age struggled to adapt to life away from home. I think I was very fortunate to have attended such a good boarding school and feel for those he unfortunately didn’t have the same experiences I did.
*I’m glad I saw this particular video.*
😂😂😂😂
*At this particular time.*
Yep
*For a very particular reason.*
Too many "particular" things going on
msaleh93 ikr
msaleh93 peculiar would be better than particular. Right?
Soggy biscuits perhaps that scarred him
And what particular thing were you referring to ? The Buggery ? Surely not. The snobbery ? nevah ! What nevah ?, well hardly evah. Three little boys at school.
How to inculcate homosexuality while retaining social respectability. Its what public school is all about. Pass the fudge Jenkins !
It's so damn accurate though
I went to a public school in the precincts of Canterbury cathedral which was founded in the 6th century. I was taught Latin in a room built in the 12th century. Morning prayers in the cathedral itself. Staggeringly privelidged when I look back.
Imagine saying 'I forgot my homework'
Right? Or "I missed the bus." 😬
"Perhaps on another planet somewhere, the norm is for adults to live in boarding factories and go to boarding offices"
This is the norm in Japan for graduates when they enter big companies like large engineering firms Toyota/Honda and the like. The factories are usually in the countryside in the middle of nowhere and all the employees are housed in employee flats with their coworkers as roommates. They have curfews and have limited visitation allowed, definitely no girlfriends. So they spend most of their time working unpaid overtime or getting drunk with their coworkers.
After a few years they all get promoted regardless of their actual effectiveness at the job and move on to other offices and if they are struggling to get a wife, after all that, the company will find them one from their secretarial staff.
Just only graduates, in China, it is common for both parents to leave for factory jobs in distant cities. Seeing their children, who are often left in the care of their Grandparents, only once or twice a year. However all colleges and many high schools in China have school boarders, so the factory dormitories are seen just as an extension of that life.
The best I can tell, a lot of Chinese colleges required the student to board there, at least that was what I was told by people during my stay in China.
Most manufacturing companies have staff dormitories, of varying quality, although mostly in a condition that wouldn't be accepted in a western country. While not compulsory to live in the dormitory, it is so much cheaper than renting, many staff choose it.
The sad thing is I would probably have more luck with women getting a secretary waifu than trying to find one normally.
I feel like this is, more or less, becoming the standard in the west as well. Big companies love to make their young, new workers move across the country and have constant not-mandatory-but-actually-mandatory after work events. They might not live on a campus, but their local peer group is nothing but coworkers and time that should be off really isn't - unless you want to be shunned by your new friends and, eventually, let go, of course.
Foxconn
Bruh my boarding school is literally nothing like this. Legit this looks like hogwarts mine is so broooke
LMAO. Same.
Is urs in the uk
@@zaynadeen6985 mine is in the US
Are there midnight feasts etc
@@quirkyqwerty2935 no
I went to a boarding school for eight years and was able to experience many actives that would not have been possible at home. I was a London kid placed into a world of horse riding, paper chases, lake sailing and camping in all this green stuff called fields and woods. We even had an old car to drive around the grounds!! A wonderful life for any child but totally unreal and disconnected to the real world. There are no grand staircases, halls or priceless oil paintings in my life now, a strange position to be in having known and lived in such a grand, royalty owned winged mansion then to be returned to a London housing estate at 16!!
after 4 years of being recommended this video i have finally caved in
“I’m just growing to mow the lawn dear, I’ll be back in June”
accurate as fuck
*going
When the other kids ask him where he went to school: “a peasant!?!?”
Your opinion and view on the public vs state schools are so clear. Its like attending my PG course... KUDOS...
Wow! What an interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing
As someone who attended a Military Boarding School, I can relate to the sudden loss of freedom. It is quite the shock.
Welbeck ?
Did you go to St. John's?
Jonty Woster I almost went there but I didn't get in.
What about the sexual interactions in those places. I'm just curious
Thomas Rivera It was all boys, all action was done when on liberty on the weekends. Not really many gay ppl in that environment and those who are keep quiet.
So this is why Archer is so fucked up
Jon B lol
Jon B I think his mother may also have something to do with that.
Adding my US perspective. My boarding school was also rather scheduled, including scheduled free time, but I had a wonderful experience and had nothing from which to recover. Our school was far too small to allow bullying. I mean, teenagers can be unkind, but I think it was as untraumatic as I can imagine those years being.
american schools are miles behind in standards to british schools you cant really compare or use your perspective to any effect
I love Lindybeige's beliefs/comments. You're the greatest! Keep doing what you're doing! :)
PARTICULAR
Waited for this comment
Wait, why would you make a comment saying JUST "particular"??
The problem with these kinds of schools is that you take a specific group of children (wealthy ones) and removing them from the influence of the rest of society. So when the wealthy children grow up to become the lawyers and politicians (which they often do) the only people they know are other wealthy people with a similarly sheltered childhood. It has little to do with privilege, and lots to do with lack of interaction.
You could of course argue that having children attend the school closest to their neighbourhood creates the same socioeconomic division (and it does to a certain extent), but the borders are not nearly as water-tight.
Growing up among primarily kind-of-wealthy children made me think that my lifestyle was normal, and that poor people had all done something wrong to end up where they had. I can only imagine that this sentiment is many times stronger at a ridiculously expensive boarding school.
For how strict it may sound, I feel like I could've used spending a couple years in boarding school just to absorb a couple of those positive habits that a strict daily schedule puts in you, as well as the more less forced interaction between people outside of your family circle and a push towards doing regular physical activity much more involved than what you see in the normal state and private schools.
yes
I enjoyed this. You touched on what I think is THE key take away from any education....time management. Forget about what you learnt. Did you learn how to manage your time and make best use of the available resources? That's what a lot of education is about and produces successful adults. Private education buys you more opportunities...resource and time based opportunities. It also removes distractions from the children allowing them to focus fully on their studies. But many of the negatives are true. So a difficult balancing act.
"Hell is other children" - Sartre rewritten
Yes lol I was like 'wtf how did I not see that fly where did it come from'
Well , the other are hell because the view of the others is dangerous for you
Andrew Boardman heheheee
I was hovering with the mouse if the fly is real or not. I'm such a smarty.
As a teacher (and a former child) I can confirm this. Many children are perfect psychopaths towards other children. They have a seemingly endless capacity for cruelty if left unchecked. In my experience, about one out of five kids will gladly turn another kid's day into a living hell, if he can get away with it.
“Knee-deep in someone’s blond children”
Better than balls deep
this was the first lindbeige video i ever watched
i CANT bro at 3:16 to 5:14 there's a bug crawling on his collar... best part of this video ,though, 10/10. Very particular.
So, like military but guns and explosives switched to nice fields and fancy buildings?
Yup. And they're often same sex schools so a lot of bumming goes on.
Adam Pardoe now, you see, nowadays that bit is a myth. The other stuff is all true though.
Some of the actually have guns and explosives, since they have CCF cadet organisations.
Archie Coomber we had a shooting range under our "great hall"
I was thinking it sounds a like like a really well funded prison.
The students did NOT choose to go there. They were forced to by their parents.
Agreed, same reason why i'm not in favour of religious schools. If you're of adult age and choose to go to a religious college, that's fine by me, but they seem uncomfortably close to indoctrination. Same thing here.
All the more reason not to subject them to that shit. They sure didn't choose to go there.
They do choose now. Hell I chose this very school
Yes, and if students chose every aspect of your life we would have no more adults in 50 years.
yeah man! sames hahah
I went to a boarding school while I lived with my father in Europe.
It's funny how what 'were' bad memories turned-out to be good ones.
It wasn't in England, - that made it that much more of a challenge.
And yes, - the situations seen in movies does-indeed go on.
I went to boarding school (not as fancy as this one) I really enjoyed it. It was strict and had a lot of traditions that might have seemed unnecessary and old fashioned to people who didn’t go there but the way we lived made us hard working and appreciative of simple pleasures as well as self-disciplined. We were kinda isolated from the rest of the world which gave me a sense of tranquility and made me focus on myself rather than thinking about external affairs in which I have no control over. I also had very close friends as we were always together. The school had its own culture and it was amazing to be a part of something bigger than myself, to contribute to something that you love even if if the contribution was minor one at least it was something that you could be proud about. In retrospect I’m grateful for the tough times as the people who experienced it with me became good friends and every tough time had a life lesson and a good memory as well as a sense of accomplishment. Boarding schools aren’t all bad 🙂
But then you don't see your family. As a parent: what's the point?
@@dominika3762 well psychologists state that once a child turns about 12-13 they learn more and are more influenced by/from their peers than their parents. The reality is that most teenagers will prefer being with people their own age. Children will become more responsible and mature when they start looking after themselves. I’m 18 years old and as I’m writing this I’m travelling across the world alone yet I feel confident. To sum it up, most children will prefer boarding school over day school. (I’ve done both). You also learn life skills and form friendships that you wouldn’t have if you didn’t go to boarding school.
@@jackdelaney1054 travelling across the world on your own at 18? You must be really rich
In an environment so regulated it would have taken me about a month until i burned the whole place down
Well first you'd have to get a hold of the necessary materials to do so, as well as ensure you are not caught in the fire, either have another way out or "another way out" if you catch my meaning.
Alyan Khan doubt it
It makes my skin crawl just thinking about it... but then maybe this is why I've never amounted to much lol
Nahhh most is I would probably dread every single day and spend half of the school year pretending that I'm sick to just stay on the dorms rather than be involve to a particular activity on a particular place on a particular time with particular people
I am German, and I, too, spent two years of my life, from 14-16, in a boarding school in northern England. If it was a culture shock for him, just imagine mine. Even though i wasn’t particularly happy there, I still quite miss it, even though I’ve been back in Germany now for well over a year.
I think boarding schools are like that. I went to a publicly funded boarding school for two years in Bangladesh. It was kind of a bad experience. But I miss it. I went to every reunion program after graduating from there.
K. H. T. H. You speak English well
@@dzidzaichidumba5435 he did live in England for a couple years. And I've also observed that Germans do tend to pick English rather well.
I miss rehab and I absolutely hated it. It's the rythm and not having to worry about what you're gonna do in the week-end, cooking, seeing friends etc that I miss. It's all done for you and there's little left for you to worry about.
@@pursuitsoflife.6119 This is not because Germans pick English easily. It is the German school system.
Weimarer Verfassung invented schools for every kid in 1919.
So for the last 101 years every German kid was obliged to attend school.
Learning German plus English or French is mandatory for every kid in any German school.
If a kid can not learn what he needs to know at grade five or so he needs to repeat grade five in a class with new classmates being one year younger. So everybody will at least learn to read, write and do basic mathematics and basic English along with history and some science.
Parents will have trouble from police and government if they want to try homeschooling. It is not allowed. Move to USA if you want to do homeschooling.
Even kids with down syndrom or spasmic disabilities have to attend regular school classes but they get some personal assistant.
As every birth is registered the government knows about how many kids to attend school. Germans need to register within one week if they change apartment. Every person and address is registered so if course all kids are registered as well.
In the last years the year before school has become a mandatory year at preschool as well. In kindergarten the preschool takes place and kids get training to sit and concentrate.
So many kids were running wild in class so no schooling was possible. Germany took so many refugees and the foreign kids need to be educated in basic things. How to sit on a chair, how to eat at a table and how to open a book. Plus of course some German language.
There are still some kids who manage to stay stupid despite attending eleven years in German schools. They repeat classes until they can leave school without degree at age sixteen.
Most kids at least enjoy the first four years with nice teachers and playful learning.
If you love learning you can attend school until grade 13, get your Abitur and go to any university in the world and study.
German kids have to choose a first foreign language starting at grade three with nine years of age. Most take English or French some take Spanish.
They choose a second foreign language from grade five or six.
School is mandatory for every kid until grade eleven. Then they leave school with MSA certificate.
Middle school certificate.
Or they stay longer for Abitur or change school to do Abitur in physics, chemistry, whatever.
Abitur is needed to apply for university. It will take 13 years to get Abitur or 12 years at quick learning schools called Gymnasium.
School is for free for all kids but there are private schools as well, of course.
Most famous private boarding school in Germany is Schloss Salem at Lake of Constance.
Germans pay lots of taxes so school system is a right for every kid and obligation for every kid.
Fun fact about German language:
We learn at school.
Study is only the correct expression when you actually study at university.
So we learn English at school and we study English literature at university.
School buildings are pretty rotten depending on the local government. Some schools got good deans and good conditions for kids, others not so much.
Kids bring their own toilet paper and soap. Or they just wait until they are home again and go to bathroom there.
This is a shame for the German schools.
Also it is pretty common to go home for lunch in Germany and go back to school for afternoon classes. Most schools don't do lunch in Germany.
Mothers stay home or work part time or they got some good networking for lunch.
my first time in a boarding school, the years above just takes the piss out of you for fun. but when you actually settle down they take you seriously and you become friends with them
That's if: you're not annoying. If you are, they just continue until you're not.
It's a pity they consider this 'bullying' now. People are so sensitive.
From what iv seen Lloyd is the most reasoned human of recent history.
Yes yes, everywhere has an equestrian center at this point, but does it have a Spandau field?
Only naked berserkers count.
Cant have naked beserkers, thats a felony :(
I wish my school had a Spandau field ... would have made sixth period much more enjoyable.
the ride never ends
They probably had a Spandau Ballet class.
"I'm just going to mow the lawn dear, I'll be back in June." That killed me
Only two years incarceration and yet you’ve acquired the toff persona, what what. I went to state schools, and I have worked for and alongside countless public school educated people. They are the strangest people I have ever met. 95% of them talk in a fast nervous manner, and display many of the signs of narcissism: a lack of empathy and self absorption in particular. I’m not sure how overfamiliarity with the word ‘particular’ fits in. Almost all of them had massive self confidence that had run ahead of their ability and was already one lap in front. And succeed they did. Is there a particular word known only to public school types that allows entry into higher ranks of society? Particular?
Good video. In fact, particularly good.
And this is my third week at boarding school. Can't wait to see how this guy describes boarding school.
"then you were supposed to stay in bed until it was time to get up, you weren't allowed to wander around in the night. Night wandering was strictly forbidden and the punishments quite harsh"
Yes yes, we all read the books. We know how this works.
The bug on your collar really bugged me.
Leon Trotsky ditto.
Leon Trotsky Now that you've pointed that at, I cannot under it.
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What do you know, a Nazi with a sense of humor.
***** I did Nazi that coming.
Holy smokes i played this school in sports 😂 even more posh and grand than my school. My dad refused to send me and my brother to boarding school (cause he and my mum hated it, plus it was same sex so even worse) so we were day at a school like this. And that was more than enough in terms of regimented time and being in the same place. We got the bus in at 7.50am each day and left school at 5.30pm. We also went to school on Saturday for half a day. The work load was heavy (especially for someone with learning difficulties) and it felt like being in a bubble with the same people for 7 years hahah. Most of them were fine though but sometimes the endless banter sucked. Do i miss it, not really. Did I learn a lot about the subjects i learnt and dealing with the difficult types, yes. Watching this definitely brings back memories bloody hell 😂
"I'm just going to mow the lawn honey, I'll be back in June"lol🤣
in the us, most boarding schools are private with many having a religious affiliation. having gone to private schools all my life i can only say that i loved it. high school was at a coed boarding school with only 400 students. very strict and rewarding. lifelong friendships that span the globe.
That was my graduation class at my public school in america
It's crazy how much graduating classes can differ in size. Mine was less than 50 people. My cousin's was near 900. I grew up in a town of just over 1000 people. He grew up in Dallas, TX.
In England- public is private and private is public- if that makes sense 😂 google it because it’s opposite to what you think
@@TheNikkiBlack Mine was less than 50 people too. I live in a city of 1.5 million people. They do indeed differ quite a lot.
Same I switched to public in the 5th grade and I was like 2 years ahead . But they didn’t wanna move me up . Not gonna lie I think public schools made me lazy .They had me as a tutor lol my HS was actually very nice for a public school. I would say I recommend boarding schools bc that’s where I made friends as well
my 5 years in as many boarding schools was a horror show of sadistic teachers and kids turned to bully's to vent the fact their parents didn't want them.
At out state school the teachers divided us into those that wanted to learn and those that didn't, their only priority was keeping up with the state curriculum , they abandoned half the pupils just to keep their own jobs.
@@snowflakemelter1172 agreed,
Luckily I was one of the ones that thrived in that isolated, ultra-competitive environment. Made me strong and independent.
You Sound insecure.
Well, that reflects on your parents chopping and changing and not assessing the school - unless you were sent there for other reasons, eg correction! Mine chose my school carefully based on it feeling like a cosy family even on a horrible cold wet sleety day in February 1962 - and my mother had been a community nurse and child and family health career in UK and Nigeria so knew what to look for
Me too. I went to one in Surrey. People always assume you come from money, but my fees were paid for by the state. I was in for 4 years. This was 1980-1984. Very tough back then. However, I am very thankful for the experience because it gave me great discipline. Having to be in a certain place, certain time. I've hardly been late for anything since....
I’m so glad you explained what a public school is in the UK. I was so confused!! I always thought boarding schools were similar to college except young kids. Sounds more like a nice prison.😳