...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.... 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. - Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I,
Baha’i Education)
