Indeed, let them welcome with confidence the challenges
awaiting them. Imbued with this excellence and a corresponding humility, with
tenacity and a loving servitude, today's youth must move towards the front
ranks of the professions, trades, arts and crafts which are necessary to the
further progress of humankind -- this to ensure that the spirit of the Cause
will cast its illumination on all these important areas of human endeavour.
Moreover, while aiming at mastering the unifying concepts and swiftly advancing
technologies of this era of communications, they can, indeed they must also
guarantee the transmittal to the future of those skills which will preserve the
marvellous, indispensable achievements of the past. The transformation which is
to occur in the functioning of society will certainly depend to a great extent
on the effectiveness of the preparations the youth make for the world they will
inherit.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated 8 May 1985
addressed to the Baha’i youth of the world; Messages from the Universal House
of Justice 1963 to 1986)
