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The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.
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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If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
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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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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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Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
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Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
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Be Prepared. Be prepared for what? Why, for any old thing.
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Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
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Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
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I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life.
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The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
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Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them some of the joys by the way which they might otherwise miss?
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Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.
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See things from the boy's point of view.
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It is risky to order a boy not to do something it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
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An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
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