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...following the precepts of God and the holy Law, suckle your children from
their infancy with the milk of a universal education, and rear them so that
from their earliest days, within their inmost heart, their very nature, a way
of life will be firmly established that will conform to the divine Teachings in
all things.
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For mothers are the first educators, the first mentors; and truly it is
the mothers who determine the happiness, the future greatness, the courteous
ways and learning and judgement, the understanding and the faith of their
little ones.
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("Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá", sec. 96, p. 126)
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