Pearls of Wisdom
- 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 man’s job cut down to a boy’s 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 boy’s 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 boy’s environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
- It’s 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 Scoutmaster’s own personal example.
- Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
- Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll 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, ‘Don’t do it yourself’ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
- Loyalty is a feature in a boy’s character that inspires boundless hope.
- See things from the boy’s point of view.
- The boy is not governed by don’t, 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.
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