“The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.”

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

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

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

It is only when you know a boy’s environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.

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

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

The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.

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

We must change boys from a ‘what can I get’ to a ‘what can I give’ attitude.

The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy’s world.

It’s the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

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

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