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A Compilation on Women

  • Author:

  • Various

  • Source:
  • Compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, Bahá’í World Centre, January 1986
  • Pages:
  • 45
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39: …it is incumbent upon the father and mother to train their children both in…
…it is incumbent upon the father and mother to train their children both in good conduct and the study of books; study, that is, to the degree required, so that no child, whether girl or boy, will remain illiterate….
(“Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá”, sec 101, p. 127) [39]