I hope that while you are studying in this college you may
so excel all other students in the various branches of knowledge taught therein
that all of them may testify that the Bahá'í students have another power, are
inspired with another effort, are imbued with a nobler ambition, are stimulated
by higher motives and make wider and deeper exertions than others. If you do
not surpass the others, then what distinction will there remain for you?
Therefore, you must strive to be superior to them, so that everyone may bear
testimony to this fact....
- 'Abdu'l-Bahá ("Star of the West", vol.
9, no. 9, 20 August 1918; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, Excellence
in All Things)
