…you should make the children familiar with the prophecies
in the Gospels and with the Name of God, and with this Revelation: that is to say, instruct them how to become
teachers, so that the love of God may be established in their hearts while they
are young children. They should develop spiritual feelings. You should explain
to them or read to them the Ishraqat, Tarazat, Tajalliyyat, the Words of
Paradise, and the Tablet of the World. You should make them memorize some of
these verses. By these means they will become enlightened and well educated,
for they are like unto a young tree: you can train them in whatever manner you
like.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha’s conversation with
P. A. H. and H. in February 1909; Star of the West vol. 9, no. 8, August 1,
1918)
