To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.