.
.
Education must free
us from superstitions and prejudices
and also from the clutches of materialism. Abdu'l-Baha
writes:
;;
"
And among the teachings of His Holiness Baha'u'llah
is man's freedom, that through the ideal Power he should be free and emancipated
from the captivity of the world of nature; for as
long
as man is captive to nature he is a ferocious animal, as the struggle for
existence
is
one of the exigencies of the world of nature. This
matter of the struggle for
existence
is the fountainhead of all calamities and is the supreme affliction.
"
;
No Baha'i
should ever deprive his children from acquiring true knowledge for
according to Baha'u'llah:
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" Knowledge
is like unto wings for the being ( of man ) and is like a ladder for ascending
. To acquire knowledge is incumbent upon all, but of those sciences which
may profit the
people
of the earth , and not such sciences as begin in mere words and end in
mere
words. The possessors of sciences and arts have a great right among
the
people of the world. Indeed, the real treasury of man is his knowledge.
Knowledge
is the means of honour, prosperity, joy, gladness, happiness
and
exultation. "
;;
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