![]() ![]() But I think that educating children is far too important a job to be left to parents. Unlike Prof Schaverien, who trains psychotherapists working with ex-boarders (or as she prefers to call them, ‘survivors’), I am no expert. We are not here to moan about the emotional retardation of the privately-educated English male but rather to focus on the benefits boarding school can bring to bear on childhood, and adolescence, despite the odd outbreak of underage sandpit sex, drinking, shoplifting etc. Basically, she argued, early boarding creates traumatised adults, paralysed by the loss of primary carers, unable to form ‘intimate relationships’ and so on. The headmasters of our finest public schools wiped away tears, my speech was reprinted (thank you Daily Telegraph), the paper even managing to find a peg for my paean to prep school: a report in the British Journal of Psychotherapy by a Jungian analyst called Professor Joy Schaverien on something worrying called ‘Boarding School Syndrome’. ![]()
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