He promulgated the adoption of the same course of education for man and
woman. Daughters and sons must follow the same curriculum of study, thereby
promoting unity of the sexes. When all mankind shall receive the same
opportunity of education and the equality of men and women be realized, the
foundations of war will be utterly destroyed. Without equality this will be
impossible because all differences and distinction are conducive to discord and
strife. Equality between men and women is conducive to the abolition of
warfare for the reason that women will never be willing to sanction it.
Mothers will not give their sons as sacrifices upon the battlefield after
twenty years of anxiety and loving devotion in rearing them from infancy, no
matter what cause they are called upon to defend. There is no doubt that when
women obtain equality of rights, war will entirely cease among mankind.
(“The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by
‘Abdu’l-Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in
1912”, p. 175) [36]