Top quotes by Baden Powell de Aquino

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct. Votes: 15

Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live. Votes: 11

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education. Votes: 10

Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size. Votes: 10

A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial. Votes: 10

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother. Votes: 7

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. Votes: 7

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too. Votes: 7

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed. Votes: 6

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man. Votes: 6

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods. Votes: 6

When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows. Votes: 5

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light. Votes: 4

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do. Votes: 4

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness. Votes: 4

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child. Votes: 4

It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest. Votes: 4

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world. Votes: 3

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others. Votes: 3

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness. Votes: 3

It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part. Votes: 3

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy. Votes: 3

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys. Votes: 0

We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude. Votes: 0

The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today. Votes: 0

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man. Votes: 0

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood? Votes: 0

It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear. Votes: 0

Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions. Votes: 0

Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors. Votes: 0

We do not want to make Scout training too soft. Votes: 0

A boy is not a sitting-down animal. Votes: 0

The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force. Votes: 0

The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning. Votes: 0

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual. Votes: 0

Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal? Votes: 0

A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away. Votes: 0