Early Years
Jeffrey Kindersley Quill was born at Littlehampton, Sussex, England on 1 February 1913, the youngest of the five children of Arthur Maxwell Quill and Emily Molesworth Kindersley, and was educated at Lancing College, which overlooked Shoreham aerodrome (at that time a small grass field with old hangars and a wooden hut for the flying club). While at Lancing, Quill became Captain of Gibbs House (1930) and Prefect (1931). He played in the Cricket XI (1930–31); Football XI (1929–30); and was Sergeant in the OTC, Cert. A. Long before he left school in 1931, the aerial activity overhead had quickened the already air-minded Quill's resolve to take a non-commissioned career in the Royal Air Force. While still a pupil at Lancing, he had attended the famous annual RAF displays at Hendon, and two years later he participated in the event.
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“If there is a price to pay for the privilege of spending the early years of child rearing in the driver’s seat, it is our reluctance, our inability, to tolerate being demoted to the backseat. Spurred by our success in programming our children during the preschool years, we may find it difficult to forgo in later states the level of control that once afforded us so much satisfaction.”
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