B-P Quotes
Some of my favorite Baden-Powell Quotes…
“Scouting is NOT a school, having a definite curriculum and standards of examination; it is NOT a brigade of officers and privates for drilling manliness into boys and girls; it is NOT a show where surface results are gained through payment in Merit Badges, medals, etc.; these all come from without, whereas real Scouting comes from within.
“Scouting is a game in which elder brothers can give their younger brothers a healthy environment and encourage them to healthy activities, such as will help them to develop citizenship. It’s strongest appeal is through Nature and Woodcraft. It deals with the individual, not with the Company. It raises intellectual as well as purely physical or purely moral qualities.
“Happy citizenship, developed through impulse from within, rather than through impression from without, individual efficiency encouraged and then harnessed for the good of the community - that is our scheme.”