He started School at South Plantation High School in August 1974.He graduated from Florida State University in August 1981,and studied at Indian River Community College (Now State College).
After becoming a Baha’i in the 1960s, William Garlington moved to Australia, where he wrote his dissertation on Baha’i mass teaching in Malwa, India, and eventually returned to the United States. In the 1980s he withdrew his membership in the Baha’i Faith, essentially over doctrinal issues relating to authenticity of revelation and the infallibility of Baha’i institutions (UHJ & NSAs).
