Indeed, let them [the Bahá'í youth] 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 marvelous, 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 letter dated 8 May 1985 written
by Universal House of Justice to the Bahá'í Youth of the World; the Compilation
of Compilations, vol. III, Scholarship)
