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"You have asked him for detailed information concerning the Bahá'í..."
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You have asked him for detailed information concerning the Bahá'í
educational programme: there is as yet no such thing as a Bahá'í curriculum,
and there are no Bahá'í publications exclusively devoted to this subject,
since the teachings of Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá do not present a
definite and detailed educational system, but simply offer certain basic
principles and set forth a number of teaching ideals that should guide future
Bahá'í educationalists in their efforts to formulate an adequate teaching
curriculum which would be in full harmony with the spirit of the Bahá'í
Teachings, and would thus meet the requirements and needs of the modern age.
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These basic principles are available in the sacred writings of the Cause,
and should be carefully studied, and gradually incorporated in various college
and university programmes. But the task of formulating a system of education
which would be officially recognized by the Cause, and enforced as such
throughout the Bahá'í world is one which [the] present-day generation of
believers cannot obviously undertake, and which has to be gradually
accomplished by Bahá'í scholars and educationalists of the future.
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(From a letter dated 7 June, 1939 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi
to an individual believer) [121]
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