A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys. Scouting is a mans job cut down to a boys size. Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man. Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal? It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part. We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods. Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boys world. Scoutmasters need to enter into boys ambitions. A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child. Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys man he can see it, too. A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial. Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live. We must change boys from a what can I get to a what can I give attitude. The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today. The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others. In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness. Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood? It is only when you know a boys environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear. Its the spirit within, not the veneer without that makes a man. It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it. You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual. The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning. The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force. A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room. A boy is not a sitting-down animal. Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education. An invaluable step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it. Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmasters own personal example. Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. Show me a poorly uniformed troop and Ill show you a poorly uniformed leader. The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest. The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser. There is no teaching to compare with example. We do not want to make Scout training too soft. The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness. When you want a thing done, Dont do it yourself is a good motto for Scoutmasters. Loyalty is a feature in a boys character that inspires boundless hope. See things from the boys point of view. The boy is not governed by dont, but is led by do. The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy. The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct. Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.

A boy is naturally full of humor. If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother. To get a hold on boys you must be their friend. In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed. The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Be Prepared. The motto Baden-Powell chose for the Scouting movement. The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system. Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives. The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step.

(2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results. It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter. If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot! No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way. The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Somewhere about 1893 I started teaching Scouting to young soldiers in my regiment. When these young fellows joined the Army they had learned reading, writing, and arithmetic in school but as a rule not much else. They were nice lads and made very good parade soldiers, obeyed orders, kept themselves clean and smart and all that, but they had never been taught to be men, how to look after themselves, how to take responsibility, and so on. They had not had my chances of education outside the classroom. They had been brought up in the herd at school, they were trained as a herd in the Army; they simply did as they were told and had no ideas or initiative

of their own. In action they carried out orders, but if their officer was shot they were as helpless as a flock of sheep. Tell one of them to ride out alone with a message on a dark night and ten to one he would lose his way. I wanted to make them feel that they were a match for any enemy, able to find their way by the stars or map, accustomed to notice all tracks and signs and to read their meaning, and able to fend for themselves away from regimental cooks and barracks. Leave the world a little better than you found it. Baden-Powell's Last Message (1941) "Here is the hatchet of war, of enmity, of bad feeling, which I now bury in Arrowe," said the Chief, at the same time plunging a hatchet in the midst of a barrel of golden arrows." "From all corners of the earth," said the Chief as soon as the cheering had subsided "you have journeyed to this great gathering of World Fellowship and Brotherhood. Today I send you out from Arrowe to all the World, bearing my symbol of Peace and Fellowship, each one of you my ambassador bearing my message of Love and Fellowship on the wings of Sacrifice and Service, to the end of the Earth. From now on the Scout symbol of Peace is the Golden Arrow. Carry it fast and far so that all men may know the Brotherhood of Man." "To THE NORTHFrom the Northlands you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood." "Today I send you back to your homelands across the great North Seas as

my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World." "I bid you farewell." "TO THE SOUTHFrom the Southland you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood." "Today I send you back to your homes under the Southern Cross as my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World." "I bid you farewell." "TO THE WESTFrom the Westlands you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood." "Today I send you back to your homes in the Great Westlands to the Pacific and beyond as my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World." "I bid you farewell." "TO THE EASTFrom the Eastlands you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood." "Today I send you back to your homes under the Starry Skies and Burning Suns to your people of the thousand years, bearing my symbol of Peace and Fellowship to the Nations of the Earth, pledging you to keep my trust." "I bid you farewell." "Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure." How to be happy though rich or poor (1930) I have gone home.

The Boy Scout trail sign on his simple tombstone in a tiny cemetery of Nyeri, Kenya.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. Robert Baden-Powell A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. Robert Baden-Powell A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. Robert Baden-Powell An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. Robert Baden-Powell Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. Robert Baden-Powell Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. Robert Baden-Powell If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. Robert Baden-Powell See things from the boy's point of view. Robert Baden-Powell Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader. Robert Baden-Powell

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. Robert Baden-Powell The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. Robert Baden-Powell The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. Robert Baden-Powell The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. Robert Baden-Powell The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light. Robert Baden-Powell The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. Robert Baden-Powell To get a hold on boys you must be their friend. Robert Baden-Powell Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. Robert Baden-Powell We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. Robert Baden-Powell When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters. Robert Baden-Powell

The aim in Nature study is to develop a realisation of God the Creator, and to infuse a sense of the beauty of Nature." Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting Nature study is the key activity in Scouting and Guiding. Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting The study of nature brings into a harmonious whole the question of the infinite, the historic and the microscopic as part of the Great Creator's work. And in these, sex and reproduction play an honoured part. Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting The wonder to me of all wonders is how some teachers have neglected Nature study, this easy and unfailing means of education, and have struggled to impose Biblical instruction as the first step towards getting a restless, fullspirited boy to think of higher things. Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting When a Wolf Cub hears the words "Nature study" his first thought is about school collections of dried leaves, but real Nature study means a great deal more than this; it means knowing about everything that is not made by man, but is created by God. Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting Nature study should not be the mere formal class teaching of the school, but the interested pursuit of each individual girl in that branch of it which particularly appeals to her, through practical handling and dealing with it. Lord Baden-Powell

Founder of Scouting The man who is blind to the beauties of Nature has missed half the pleasure of life. Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting A Lady Cubmaster was teaching a Cub Natural History, and asked him: "What is a rabbit covered with - is it hair, or wool, or fur, or what". The Cub replied: "Good gracious, Akela, haven't you ever seen a rabbit?". Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting God has given us a world to live in that is full of beauties and wonders and He has given us not only eyes to see them but minds to understand them, if we only have the sense to look at them in that light. Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting A Scout/Guide should save animals as far as possible from pain, and should not kill any animal unnecessarily, not even the smallest of God's creatures. Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting By continually watching animals in their natural state one gets to like them too well to shoot them. The whole sport of hunting animals lies in the woodcraft of stalking them, not in the killing. Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting An animal has been made by God just as you have been. He is therefore a fellowcreature. He has not the power of speaking our language, but can feel pleasure or pain just as we can, and he can feel grateful to anyone who is kind to him. A Scout is always helpful to people who are crippled or blind or deaf and dumb; so he is good also to these dumb fellow-creatures of ours. Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting As a Scout, you are the guardian of the woods. A Scout never damages a tree by hacking it with his knife or axe. It does not take long to fell a tree, but it

takes many years to grow one, so a Scout cuts down a tree for a good reason only not just for the sake of using his axe. For every tree felled, two should be planted." Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting For those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, the forest is at once a laboratory, a club and a temple Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting There's nothing like 'Being Prepared' is there, for what might seem possible, even if it may not seem probable. Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting

Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting The open-air is the real objective of Scouting and the key to its success. Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting The key that unlocks the spirit of the movement is the romance of woodcraft and nature lore. Lord Baden-Powell Founder of Scouting Scouting is a school of citizenship through woodcraft.

"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Age 80. From his last letters, September, 1940. "I have gone home." The Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey offered a place for BadenPowell, between the graves of the Unknown Warrior and David Livingstone. After careful consideration, the family declined this great honour as not conforming to B-P's expressed wishes. He was buried in the Africa he loved with full military honours accorded to his rank of Lieutenant-General and with a guard of Boy Scouts European, African and Asian. His grave in the tiny cemetery of Nyeri, Kenya, is marked by a simple stone that carries his name and the Boy Scout trail sign for "I have gone home." "Trust should be the basis for all our moral training." Sir Robert Baden-Powell, "The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country." Sir Robert Baden-Powell "There is no teaching to compare with example." Sir Robert Baden-Powell "An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual." Sir Robert Baden-Powell

"Scouts of the World - Brothers Together" Sir Robert Baden-Powell "The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol." Sir Robert Baden-Powell "Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives." Sir Robert Baden-Powell Preface to Aids to Scoutmastership (1920) The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results. Sir Robert Baden-Powell Aids to Scoutmastership (1920) "It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter." Sir Robert Baden-Powell Aids to Scoutmastership (1920)

"If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot !" Robert Baden-Powell The Scouter, November 1928 Reprinted in Footsteps of the Founder, 1987

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. Be Prepared the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. See things from the boy's point of view. Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light. Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters. The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct. In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed. Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope. The good turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness. The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of another brother.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys. Scouting is a mans job cut down to a boys size. Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man. Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal? It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part. We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning. The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force. A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room. A boy is not a sitting-down animal. Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education. The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it. Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmasters own personal example. Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. "Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise." The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. Robert Baden-Powell When you want a thing done, Dont do it yourself is a good motto for Scoutmasters. Robert Baden-Powell A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. Robert Baden-Powell To get a hold on boys you must be their friend. Robert Baden-Powell Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmasters own personal example. Robert Baden-Powell The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. Robert Baden-Powell

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. Robert Baden-Powell Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. Robert Baden-Powell If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. Robert Baden-Powell The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. Robert Baden-Powell A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. Robert Baden-Powell

"A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens." Sir Baden-Powell "The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it." Sir Baden-Powell "Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise." Sir Baden-Powell "It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest." Sir Baden-Powell "To get a hold on boys you must be their friend." Sir Baden-Powell "In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed." Sir Baden-Powell

"The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct." Sir Baden-Powell "If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk." Sir Baden-Powell "Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example." Sir Baden-Powell "The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country." Sir Baden-Powell "When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters." Sir Baden-Powell "In all of this, it is the spirit that matters. Our Scout law and Promise, when we really put them into practice, take away all occasion for wars and strife among nations." Sir Baden-Powell "The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself." Sir Baden-Powell "Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader." Sir Baden-Powell "The boy is not governed by don't ,but is led by do." Sir Baden-Powell "A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim." Sir Baden-Powell

"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it." Sir Baden-Powell "The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light." Sir Baden-Powell "The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." Sir Baden-Powell "There is no teaching to compare with example."

"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances." Sir Baden-Powell "Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors." Sir Baden-Powell "An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual." Sir Baden-Powell "See things from the boy's point of view." Sir Baden-Powell "Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment." Sir Baden-Powell "O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser." Sir Baden-Powell "The object of the patrol method is not so much having the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy." Sir Baden-Powell

"The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of another brother." Sir Baden-Powell "The good turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness." Sir Baden-Powell "Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope."