…Baha'i
education, just like any other system of education, is based on the assumption
that there are certain natural deficiencies in every child, no matter how
gifted, which his educators, whether his parents, schoolmasters, or his
spiritual guides and preceptors, should endeavour to remedy. Discipline of some
sort, whether physical, moral or intellectual, is indeed indispensable, and no
training can be said to be complete and fruitful if it disregards this element.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 9 July 1939, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an
individual believer; included in a Memorandum from the Research department of
the Universal House of Justice, dated 16 October 1994; compilation: ‘Lights of
Guidance’)
