Moral Education for Our Children

Classes for Children (ages 5-10).

One of the Core Activities offered by the HRM Bahá’í Community and open to all.

Children’s nobility and inherent dignity and their diverse talents and capacities require nourishment, love, and attention. Children’s education is a central preoccupation of Bahá’í communities and the key to the progress of the human community.

The Bahá’í Community of Halifax RM has joined thousands of local Bahá’í communities around the world in opening up its children’s classes to all children, of whatever background or belief. We try to  place children’s education at the centre of our local plans and actions. Distressed by the widespread abandonment of proper care of, and attention to, children, Bahá’ís have resolved to give as much attention to the education of children as their personal and community resources allow.

Recognizing the enormous potential of children and their intellectual, emotional, and moral capacities, the Bahá’í Community feels it vital to complement the formal education system with programmes of ethical and spiritual enrichment.

Values and morality, virtues and good character, stories of spiritual and religious heroism, and insights into the eternal relationship of God and humanity provide the basis for Bahá’í children’s classes. The elimination of prejudice, the equality of girls and boys, love of the arts and sciences, a healthy respect for all religions, and a strict avoidance of indoctrination that can lead to bigotry and narrow-mindedness characterize the methods of Bahá’í instruction. These children’s classes mark a grass-roots revolution in dramatically changing the importance we attach to the rearing of children, in raising them to be the light of the world and citizens in our global family of nations.

If you would like more information on the children’s classes offered in HRM, contact us at:

Telephone : (902) 425-8188

Email: info@halifaxbahai.org