Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing."