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)
