Guest Author - Sandy Mullins

Welcome to Part Two of Education and Baha’is. First, I found some answers to some questions you might have that pertain to education.

Why does God send us different Prophets?
“GOD sends Prophets for the education of the people and the progress of mankind.
Abdu'l-Baha, Abdu'l-Baha in London, p. 42

”The mission of the prophets is no other than the advancement or the education of the world of humanity.”
Compilations, Baha'i Scriptures, p. 391

”From the heaven of God's Will, and for the purpose of ennobling the world of being and of elevating the minds and souls of men, hath been sent down that which is the most effective instrument for the education of the whole human race.”
Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 95

How can Religion and Science go together?
”Religion and Science are inter-twined with each other and cannot be separated....Therefore science, education and civilization are most important necessities for the full religious life.”
Abdu’l-Baha, Abdu'l-Baha in London, p. 28

“Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.”
Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 260

Why do we have war?
“All these wars have arisen from the ignorance of humanity, because of misunderstandings, and through the lack of the education of human kind.”
Compilations, Baha'i Scriptures, p. 311

Education, is believed to be the answers to most of the world’s ills. It is imperative that education starts at infancy, so children and humanity can flourish into the world we all dream of. A world where all of our children can be free of hatred and discrimination. A world free of war, with justice and freedom that we in the United States every day take for granted.

Below are a few more quotes about education, that I hope you enjoy:
”When education touches the human being those virtues which are the deposits of God, like unto the unfoldment of the tree within the fecundated seed, will become apparent from the human reality.”
Compilations, Baha'i Scriptures, p. 387

”As befitting thanks for such a bounty, stand ye staunch and strong in the Covenant and, following the precepts of God and the holy Law, suckle your children from their infancy with the milk of a universal education, and rear them so that from their earliest days, within their inmost heart, their very nature, a way of life will be firmly established that will conform to the divine Teachings in all things.”
Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 125

”The education and training of children is among the most meritorious acts of humankind and draweth down the grace and favour of the All-Merciful, for education is the indispensable foundation of all human excellence and alloweth man to work his way to the heights of abiding glory. If a child be trained from his infancy, he will, through the loving care of the Holy Gardener, drink in the crystal waters of the spirit and of knowledge, like a young tree amid the rilling brooks. And certainly he will gather to himself the bright rays of the Sun of Truth, and through its light and heat will grow ever fresh and fair in the garden of life.”
Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 129

”Among the greatest of all services that can possibly be rendered by man to Almighty God is the education and training of children, young plants of the Abha Paradise, so that these children, fostered by grace in the way of salvation, growing like pearls of divine bounty in the shell of education, will one day bejewel the crown of abiding glory.”
Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 133

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