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Baden Powell says -
"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives
of others."
Sir Robert Baden-Powell,
Age 80. From his last letters, September, 1940.
"I have gone home."
The Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey offered a place for Baden-Powell,
between the graves of the Unknown Warrior and David Livingstone. After
careful consideration, the family declined this great honour as not conforming
to B-P's expressed wishes. He was buried in the Africa he loved with full
military honours accorded to his rank of Lieutenant-General and with a
guard of Boy Scouts European, African and Asian. His grave in the tiny
cemetery of Nyeri, Kenya, is marked by a simple stone that carries his
name and the Boy Scout trail sign for "I have gone home."
"Trust should be the basis for all our moral training."
Sir Robert Baden-Powell,
"The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted
it covers up all differences of class and country."
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
"There is no teaching to compare with example."
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
"An individual step in character training is to put responsibility
on the individual."
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
"Scouts of the World - Brothers Together"
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
"The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual
responsibility for the good of his patrol."
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
"Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly
game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative,
and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that
receives."
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Preface to Aids to Scoutmastership (1920)
The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother....
He has simply to be a boy-man, that is:
(1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself
in the right plane with his boys as a first step.
(2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different
ages of boy life.
(3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.
(4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals
to gain the best results.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Aids to Scoutmastership (1920)
"It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for
that matter, a real co-operative matter."
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Aids to Scoutmastership (1920)
"If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought
to be shot !"
Robert Baden-Powell
The Scouter, November 1928
Reprinted in Footsteps of the Founder, 1987
This page was last revised by NRB on: Sunday,
August 22, 1999
