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The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Robert Baden-Powell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 22
Died: 1941
Died: January 8
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After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when trusted and relied on, were just as capable and reliable as men.
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Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
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The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.
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The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
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In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: What would Christ have done? Then do it-as nearly as you can.
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In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
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See things from the boy's point of view.
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