The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.
Robert Baden-PowellRead
Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Scoutcraft helps transform individuals by instilling values of faith and duty.
This quote emphasizes the power of Scoutcraft as a transformative practice, capable of guiding even the most unruly individuals towards higher ideals and a sense of faith. It highlights the importance of the Scout's commitment to performing good deeds daily, which serves as a foundational principle for parents and religious leaders to nurture deeper beliefs and moral character in youth.
Themes
ScoutcraftFaithDutyEducationService
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about community service, one could quote this to inspire young people.
More from Robert Baden-Powell
All quotes →The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
Robert Baden-PowellRead
Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
Robert Baden-PowellRead
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
Robert Baden-PowellRead
Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.
Robert Baden-PowellRead
Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.
Robert Baden-PowellRead
Similar quotes
As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see the models that were presented to me did not include my world. In fact, 'I was told by one teacher in college that one could only write poetry in the language in which one first said Mother. That left me out of American literature, for sure.
Julia AlvarezRead
Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.
Kano JigoroRead
We want the world our children inherit to be defined by the values enshrined in the U.N. Charter: peace, justice, respect, human rights, tolerance, and solidarity.
Antonio GuterresRead
I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?
Franz KafkaRead
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.
Camille PagliaRead
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.
Nathaniel BrandenRead