Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.
The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.
Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.
In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.