We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.
A boy is not a sitting-down animal.
Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.