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56: "...following the precepts of God and the holy Law, suckle your children from..."

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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) [56]

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