"The institution of the Summer School constitutes a vital and inseparable part of any teaching campaign, and as such ought to be given the full importance it deserves in the teaching plans and activities of the believers. It should be organized in such a way as to attract the attention of the non-believers to the Cause and thus become an effective medium for teaching."1

"Where such advanced clusters are flourishing, the influence they exert begins to spread beyond their own borders to enrich regional events, such as summer and winter schools."2

"May this year's seasonal schools provide a mighty reinforcement to the new patterns of community life emerging in the Five Year Plan and attract a growing number of friends and seekers."3

In its March 2005 letter the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada wrote that a seasonal school should combine "the threefold features of devotion, study and recreation" fulfilling "its true function of deepening the knowledge, stimulating the zeal, and fostering the spirit of fellowship among the believers in every Bahá'í community."