Consider… the effectiveness
of education in the human kingdom. It makes the ignorant wise, the tyrant
merciful, the blind seeing, the deaf attentive, even the imbecile intelligent.
How vast this difference. How wide the chasm which separates the educated man
from the man who lacks teaching and training. This is the effect when the
teacher is merely an ordinary teacher.
But—praise be to
God!—your Teacher and Instructor is Bahá’u’lláh. He is the Educator of the
Orient and Occident. He is the Teacher of the very world of divinity and
spirituality, the Sun of Truth, the Word of God. The lights of His education
are radiating even as the sun.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, 2 May, 1912, Chicago;
‘The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by 'Abdu'l-Bahá during
His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912’)
