Childhood and Education
Griffin was born in Utah, and his family moved to California in his youth. Exposure to nature as a Boy Scout gave him a love of wild places and fly fishing. He studied medicine and graduated from Stanford University, subsequently setting up medical practice as an internist in Marin County.
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Famous quotes containing the words childhood and, childhood and/or education:
“Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
—Flannery OConnor (19251964)
“We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will be able to cooperate with our education if we go easy on the blocking techniques, the outright prohibitions, the nos and go heavy on substitution techniques, that is, the redirection or certain impulses and the offering of substitute satisfactions.”
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