…man needs an educator, and this educator must be
unquestionably and indubitably perfect in all respects and distinguished above
all men. Otherwise, if he should be like the rest of humanity, he could not be
their educator, more particularly because he must be at the same time their
material and human as well as their spiritual educator…
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Some
Answered Questions"; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, Baha’
Education)