Baden powell de aquino quotes

The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.

It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.

Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

We do not want to make Scout training too soft.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.

It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.

We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.

A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.

It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.

A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.