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Author's popularity: 9
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Vote: | A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. |
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Vote: | A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. |
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Vote: | A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. |
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Vote: | An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. |
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Vote: | Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. |
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Vote: | Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. |
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Vote: | If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. |
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Vote: | Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors. |
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Vote: | See things from the boy's point of view. |
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Vote: | Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader. |
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Vote: | Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. |
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Vote: | The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. |
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Vote: | The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. |
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Vote: | The object of the patrol method is not so much having the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy. |
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Vote: | The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of another brother. |
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Vote: | The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. |
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Vote: | The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light. |
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Vote: | The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. |
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Vote: | To get a hold on boys you must be their friend. |
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Vote: | Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. |
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Vote: | We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. |
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Vote: | When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters. |
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Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (February 22, 1857 – January 8, 1941) was a soldier, writer and founder of the world Scouting movement.
Early life Baden-Powell was born in Paddington, London in 1857. He was the sixth of eight sons amongst ten children of a Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford. In the family and to his friends he was known as Stephe (rhymes with Livy). His father, Reverend Harry Baden-Powell died when he was three, and he was raised by his mother, Henrietta Grace, a strong woman determined her children would succeed, of whom he would say in 1933, "The whole secret of my getting on lay with my mother."
After attending Rose Hill School, Tunbridge Wells, Baden-Powell was awarded a scholarship to Charterhouse public school. His first introduction to scouting skills was stalking and cooking animals - and avoiding teachers - in the nearby woods, which were strictly out-of-bounds. He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist of some talent, and enjoyed acting. Holidays were usually spent on yachting or canoeing expeditions with his brothers.
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