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where rich kids learn independence and everyone else learns to miss home on a schedule.
means a school where students live on campus full-time, so class, meals, and bedtime all answer to the same institution.
from traces to medieval english monasteries and cathedral schools that housed choirboys and scholars, later formalized by elite institutions like eton (1440) and harrow (1572) to train the sons of aristocrats and empire administrators away from home.
etymologyboard once literally meant the dinner table
peak erabritish empire shipped kids home to school
modern shiftnow majority day students at many old schools
famous alumnitwenty british prime ministers went to eton
for instance
eton college — founded 1440, educated 20 uk prime ministers
phillips exeter — harkness table method, founded 1781, new hampshire
doon school — india's answer to eton, founded 1935 dehradun
le rosey — switzerland, most expensive school on earth, ~$150k a year