Regarding your question about children fighting: the
statement of the Master, not to strike back, should not be taken so extremely
literally that Bahá'í children must accept to be bullied and thrashed. If they
can manage to show a better way of settling disputes than by active
self-defense, they should naturally do so.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 11 May 1945
written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; The Compilation
of Compilations, vol. I, Baha’i Education)
