180. By "efficiency" I don't mean more money-making skill, but a general intelligence and capability to live a free, prosperous and happy life. 181. Make yourself efficient so that you can depend on yourself; plan out your own way of making your career or of doing any job that comes to you. Don't bother getting other... Continue Reading →

171. Self-education, that is, what a boy learns for himself, is what is going to stick by him and guide him later on in life, far more than anything that is imposed upon him through instruction be a teacher. 172. The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing... Continue Reading →

169. The balance sheet of the community cannot be audited as satisfactory where the cost of making good citizens, through the medium of its education and church, is exceeded by the per contra cost of punishing it bad citizenship through the medium of police and prisons. 170. The test of success in education is not what a... Continue Reading →

156. A Scout is active in doing good, not passive in being good. 157. It is something to be good, but is far better to do good. 158. Sought knowledge lasts, unsought does not. 159. The average boy (if there is such a thing as the average boy) does not wan to sit down and passively receive theoretical instruction.... Continue Reading →

144. A Scout/Guide must not take any reward for being helpful or courteous. 145. Scouting is not only fun, but it also requires a lot from you. 146. Do your duty first and you will et your rights afterwards. 147. Duty done dolefully is duty half done; done cheerily, its value is doubled. 148. No good... Continue Reading →

140. A man who is in the habit of drinking wine or spirits in strong doses every day is not the slightest use for scouting, and very little use for anything else. 141. It would be simply impossible for a man who drinks to be a scout. 142. Men who get into the habit of drinking... Continue Reading →

137. The child in naturally inclined to self-expression by drawing - of sorts; very much of sorts which we look at it with the eye trained to academic rules of drawing.  It is this academic view that makes us interfere with the sensitive self-development and causes it to curl up int its shell abashed - never... Continue Reading →

134. The fellow who has done his best comes back [to his Maker] with no fear upon him; he can truthfully say to God: "I have tried to do my duty; I have done my best", and no man can do more than that. 135. [The Grand Howl] means that you will do your best with both... Continue Reading →

124. Discipline is not gained by punishing a child for a bad habit, but by substituting a better occupation that will absorb his attention and gradually lead him to forget the old one. 125. A ship can be either a heaven or a hell, it depends on the fellows in her.  If they are surly, inclined... Continue Reading →

116. It is by effort that we grow strong, by effort that we succeed.  It is in the effort of tackling a difficulty - with a smile on - that St. George gives us a hopeful lead. 117. When you are in an impossible-looking job before you, go at it, "grin and tackle it", as the... Continue Reading →