The Guardian fully agrees with your idea that the permanent
welfare of the Faith demands the steady development of local Bahá'í community
life. This is the bedrock of Bahá'í national growth and development. Great
emphasis, he feels, should be placed upon Bahá'í Summer Schools. A greater
number of believers and visitors should be encouraged to attend them, their
scope should, if not too expensive, be systematically widened, the atmosphere
pervading them must be given a distinctive Bahá'í character, and the level of
their discussions and the standard of their studies must be raised.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a
letter dated 10 September 1932 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the
National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada; The Compilation of
Compilations, vol. I, Centers of Baha’i Learning)
