Every child is potentially the light of the world -- and at
the same time its triple darkness; wherefore must the question of education be
accounted as of primary importance. From his infancy, the child must be nursed
at the breast of God's love, and nurtured in the embrace of His knowledge, that
he may radiate light, grow in spirituality, be filled with wisdom and learning,
and take on the characteristics of the angelic host. Since ye have been
assigned to this holy task, ye must therefore exert every effort to make that
school famed in all respects throughout the world; to make it the cause of
exalting the Word of the Lord.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (‘Selections from the Writings of
'Abdu'l-Bahá’)
