The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.
Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.
The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.
We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.
We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.