Scoutmaster Quotes & Sayings

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. — Robert Baden-Powell

A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose total experience outdoors probably consists of two overnight hikes and a weekend in the Catskills. But we have just had that confrontation. The one who goes by Pritchard's book is Sid's wife, and I am wary. It is not my expedition. I am a guest here. — Wallace Stegner

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. — Robert Baden-Powell

The boys teach; the Scoutmaster tests. — Alvin Townley

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too. — Baden Powell De Aquino

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy. — Baden Powell De Aquino

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice. — Robert Baden-Powell

The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning. — Baden Powell De Aquino

I didn't know what exhausted me emotionally until that moment, and I realized that the experience of being a soldier, with unlimited license for excess, excessive violence, excessive sex, was a blueprint for self-destruction. Because then I began to wake up to the idea that manhood, as passed onto me by my father, my scoutmaster, my gym instructor, my army sergeant, that vision of manhood was a blueprint for self-destruction and a lie, and that was a burden that I was no longer able to carry. It was too difficult for me to be that hard. I said, "OK, Ammon, I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed. — Utah Phillips

I'm not in the Scouts any more,' I remind her. Mr Moody our scoutmaster told me to get lost, so I did, and it took the Snowdonia mountain rescue service two days to find my shelter. — David Mitchell

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother. — Baden Powell De Aquino

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. — Robert Baden-Powell