There is no objection to a National Spiritual Assembly member
serving on the National Teaching Committee, but if National Spiritual Assembly
members were to predominate on the Committee the purpose of appointing it,
which is to relieve the National Assembly of the details of the work, would be
defeated. It is also preferable for some qualified native believers to serve on
the National Teaching Committee so that they may thus be trained to carry on
with the work.
... the beloved Guardian paid great attention to the
administrative arrangements for teaching and was highly in favour of one
central National Teaching Committee with Regional Committees responsible to it.
He once pointed out that absorption of petty details of Bahá'í administration
by the personnel of the National Spiritual Assembly is manifestly injurious to
efficiency and an expert discharge of Bahá'í duties.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 23 June, 1971 to the National Spiritual Assembly of Brazil; compilation: ‘Lights of Guidance’)
