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‘It’s wrong to bar young Baha’is from higher education!’

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Academics unite
Some of the academics who've joined the condemnation. Pic used from Baha'i International Community website.

Forty three prominent academics of Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim backgrounds from 16 countries have joined the condemnation of Iran’s policy to bar young Baha’is and others from higher education.

In an unprecedented global initiative they signed an open letter, published on 10 October in The Daily Telegraph .

The letter condemns, in particular, recent attacks by the Iranian authorities on an informal educational initiative of the Baha’i community – known as the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE).

It is at BIHE that Baha’i professors, debarred by the Iranian government from practicing their professions, voluntarily offer their services to teach young community members who are banned from higher education.

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Knowledge is as wings to man’s life . . .

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Welcome to Thames Valley Bahai Community’s regular ‘thought for the month’ Bahai webpost.

Each thought is taken from the Bahai Reference Library.

Here’s October’s ‘thought for the month’: “Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man’s life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth, and not those which begin with words and end with words….

“In truth, knowledge is a veritable treasure for man, and a source of glory, of bounty, of joy, of exaltation, of cheer and gladness unto him. Happy the man that cleaveth unto it, and woe betide the heedless.”  (From Epistle to the Song of the Wolf , pp 26-27)