O thou teacher of the children of the kingdom! Thou hast
arisen to perform a service which would justly entitle thee to vaunt thyself
over all the teachers on earth. For the teachers of this world make use of
human education to develop the powers, whether spiritual or material, of
humankind, whilst thou art training these young plants in the gardens of God
according to the education of Heaven, and art giving them the lessons of the
Kingdom. The result of this kind of teaching will be that it will attract the
blessings of God, and make manifest the perfections of man.
Hold thou fast to this kind of teaching, for the fruits of
it will be very great. The children must, from their infancy, be raised to be
spiritual and godly Bahá'ís. If such be their training, they will remain safe
from every test.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (The Compilation
of Compilations, vol. I, Baha’i Education)
