Baden Powell De Aquino Quotes

“A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.”

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

“A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.”

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.

— Baden Powell De Aquino

“In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.”

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

“Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.”

— Baden Powell De Aquino

“The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.”

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

“Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.”

— Baden Powell De Aquino

“The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.”

— Baden Powell De Aquino

We do not want to make Scout training too soft.

— Baden Powell De Aquino

“It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.”

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

“Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.”

— Baden Powell De Aquino

A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

— Baden Powell De Aquino

“The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.”

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.

— Baden Powell De Aquino

“Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?”

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

“It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.”

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

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

— Baden Powell De Aquino

“A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.”

— Baden Powell De Aquino