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A boy is not a sitting-down animal.
We do not want to make Scout training too soft.
Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.
The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.
A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.
Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.
The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.
Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.
The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.
The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.
Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?
The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.
Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.
We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.
You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.
We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.
The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.
Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.
Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.
It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.
A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.
It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.
Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.
Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.
The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.