Lord Baden-Powell on Friendliness

199. Boys are usually loyal friends to each other, and thus friendliness comes almost naturally to a boy. It is the one duty that he understands. 200. A man who has no friends is the man who gives out no friendship. 201. Friendship is like a boomerang: you give out your friendship to another chap and... Continue Reading →

Lord Baden-Powell on Fair Play, Fame, and First Aid

191. Play fair yourself and insist on fair play in others. 192. Notoriety is not the same thing as Fame. 193. First Aid is an important and difficult subject - difficult inasmuch as it requires great care and precision, exactitude, and common sense (all unnatural attributes of the ordinary boy!) Footsteps of the founder: the Baden-Powell quotations... Continue Reading →

Lord Baden-Powell on Example

183. Our training is largely by example. 184. What the Scoutmaster does his boys will do.  The Scoutmaster is reflected in his Scouts. 185. There is no teaching to compare with example. 186. There is no doubt whatever that in the boys' eyes it is what a man does that counts and not so much what he... Continue Reading →

Lord Baden-Powell on Eleventh Law

182. There is to the Scout code an eleventh Law, an unwritten one, namely, "a Scout is not a fool". Footsteps of the founder: the Baden-Powell quotations book Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell – Mario Sica – Nuova Fiordaliso – 2002

Lord Baden-Powell on Efficiency

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 →

Lord Baden-Powell on Success in Education

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 →

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