56: …following the precepts of God and the holy Law, suckle your children from…
…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.
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.
(“Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá”, sec. 96, p. 126)
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