In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Today, with the endorsement of the Almighty God and the special attention and favors of the Savior- may our souls be sacrificed for him- the educational centers, from the primary to the secondary schools and the crucial academic centers of the Islamic Republic are reopening and starting their activities. I consider it appropriate to remind about subjects that I have repeatedly spoken about previously.
I regard it as my responsibility to Islam and the esteemed nation to reiterate and stress upon this crucial subject. I hope that all authorities involved in educational affairs, all government administrators of the Islamic Republic, all devoted intellectuals, orators and writers and finally each person of the Iranian nation who is responsible in the presence of the Omnipotent God, should not be negligent and careless in these matters of utmost importance. They should take steps for the further enrichment and improvement of the foundations of educational system.
1. Efforts must be undertaken to select appropriate educational staff from the primary to the advance level among the persons who are pious, devoted, having faith in the fundamentals of the Islamic Republic and do not have any inclination towards deviant ideologies of the East and the West. The dear students should also scrutinize the efficiency and character of the teachers with an impartially examining and report the matter immediately to the relevant authorities if they find trends of deviation among any of them, The secondary and primary school teachers should also beware of doing their colleagues actions in order to prevent deviance theories, which can be imposed upon our sons of the Islamic Republic by some ones during the process of teaching and sharing information. In case of not bringing desired results, the matter may choose to discuss beforehand with relevant authorities. Today, Iran can no longer tolerate the ideological barriers of the East and the West invoked by some disloyal persons. We must strive to accomplish our mission of cultural independence, which provides a base for the independent sovereign state. Our scholars should be committed firmly to the spirit that only the Iranian culture emerged from the Islamic roots can survive our country and nation.
Dear teachers are well aware of the sequences brought by colonial culture adopted during the period of Father and his Son who succeeded his father as King. Surely, relying on Iranian and Islamic cultural heritage and resources will bring for us ultimate victory and triumph will be yours Train up the children in a way, during the classrooms experiences, as they become useful and more suited to interest of society. They should consider Eastern and Western superpowers responsible for the destruction and misery they experienced.
2. Primary and secondary schools teachers and university lecturers, must be determined to pay close attention to their students and be ensure that they are not going to be deceived by deviant Russian and hypocrites American groupings. My dear children, taking care and observing each others in best possible way that if some of your enemies pretending as friends yet aim at deceiving you or attracting your friends and classmates towards their groups, examining such case, report them to the relevant authorities and this must be done in a covert manner. My dear children, as you are well aware that the destiny of the Islamic Republic depends upon your generation in coming future. You must become fully determined for taking care and observing yourselves and your friends so that you can take steps forward towards the right path including the ideological features and other aspects of life. The inclination towards any type of deviant doctrines and even slightly ideological dependence on the East or the West will not only bring destruction for yourself but also, in case of negligence, it can have negative effect on others in the long term. We shall all be answerable in the presence of the Exalted God and accountable to the next coming generations. You must take care about the influence of the hypocrites, destructive elements and deviant persons, in the secondary schools and other educational centers. This influence should not result in the obliteration of Islam. Responsibility refers to all the relevant educational authorities and especially the duty of secondary schools teachers, university lecturers and students belonging to Hizbullah are more crucial in this regard.
We are all aware that after the involvement of general public; the destiny of country, nation and political system relies on the educated class and the fundamental objective followed by the neo-colonialists is to take control over the academic centers of such class. In the recent decades, the damages and grieves suffered by our country has been caused by the disloyal persons of this class. Dependence of eastern-oriented on the East and the westernized on the West- recognized as enlightened- have arisen from the universities yet their frame of mind has been set in the primary and secondary schools. They have brought countless mischief to our culture, religion and country. They have done their best in order to have totally dependence on the Eastern and Western powers and recently, by having reliance on America, they have strived hard to give advantages to such powers. These educated persons, carrying the eastern and western thoughts, can be considered just like those thieves who aimed at stealing valuable goods with the help of torchlight to earn the willingness of their masters and satisfy their desires. Although we are not accountable for what occurred for our nation in the earlier period yet presently, the President, the Government, the Islamic Consultative Assembly and all the concerned educational authorities are responsible in presence of God Almighty and accountable towards the masses of the oppressed nation. We must be aware of our great religious and national responsibilities- our responsibility for oppressed class- accountability in the presence of Creator and towards the creatures throughout the course of future history.
Carelessness and negligence must be avoided especially, in case of education and training, since it is disloyalty to Islam and the Islamic Republic and unfaithfulness to the process of the cultural independence of the nation and country. Presently, the students must gain knowledge of the Islamic Revolution's history, recognize the importance of harmony among themselves and the role of unity between university students and the religious schools. In case of existing mutual understanding between students and religious schools, the Western and Eastern-oriented groups of the hypocrites, leftists and other destructive elements would not set their greedy eyes upon Islamic State. If even they set their greedy eyes in circumstances of your advantage then they would have to face with a decisive defeat.
Additionally, it is worth knowing that it was not without motive that the previous regime used the services of the associated poets, writers, orators' rumormongers and journalists to sow the seeds of discord between these two groups- university and the religious institutions. Unfortunately, they were successful in this regard as these two classes became the sworn enemies of each other and interaction between the two groups in their respective environs was made illegal and each of the group detested the other. Rida Khan and his Son fanned the flames of this discord in order to make this country dependent on the superpowers in all respects. They made their public unknown with their real identity, national and enriched Islamic culture so they become dependent on foreigners and found themselves devoid of values. This tragedy caused to take the country and the great religion of Islam towards the back. Presently, it requires active participation of the nation and the government to compensate the unpleasant occurrences, which took place for our country and nation. It is hoped that we can become totally independent with the help of mutual coordination, guidance of the intellectuals and the devoted religious scholars; and by eliminating despair among ourselves and rediscovering the sense of the self and the great culture of our own.
3. Devoted parents should monitor the movements of their children and control their whereabouts closely in order to prevent their children by trapping in the American hypocrites and the Russian deviants networks; they should monitor their studies because the role of the parents in safeguarding their children at the primary and secondary level school is extremely important.
Parents must pay attention to this reality that their children can be influenced easily with a single deceptive slogan at such age group and consequently, none could be able to prevent them by adopting the path for which they were deceived at crucial stage of their life. Parents should consider themselves more effective than every one else in rescuing their children from the whirlpool of ignorance and immorality. For this reason, they should keep in touch sympathetically and devotedly with the teachers of their children, assist them in this mission, and seek their assistance. I hope that our young generation ensure the cultural, political, economical and military independence in future and liberate us from the nuisance of the superpowers and they can become the real founders of the fair Third World.
It is hoped that with the endorsement of the Exalted God and belief in the power of faith and the favors of the Savior- may our souls be sacrificed for him- the unseen path is made manifest and bring spiritual and material prosperity for all. May God's peace be upon His righteous servants.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini