Ten Essentials of Scoutmastership 1 - A Belief in Boys
The Ten Essentials of Scoutmastership penned by William 'Green Bar' Hillcourt were part of the Scoutmaster's Handbook for many years.
- A belief in boys that will make you want to invest yourself and your time on their behalf.
As Plato said “Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable”. But our work is not merely managing boys as if they were our employees, teaching boys as if they were students in a classroom or preaching to boys as if they were our congregants.
Our work is creating an environment were they discover for themselves their capabilities and develop the many possibilities that await them in life.
Can Scouting actually have any impact on boys? Is it worth our tremendous investment of energy, time and resources? Can a Scoutmaster make a difference?
The answer is in the hundreds of thousands of stories told by men who were once Scouts.
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