Aids to Scoutmastership
Aids to Scoutmastership
A Handbook for Scoutmasters on the Theory of Scout Training
About the Book
This is a reproduction of the 1920 edition (second impression) of Aids to Scoutmastership: A Handbook for Scoutmasters on the Theory of Scout Training by Sir Robert Baden Powell published by Herbert Jenkins Limited, 3 York Street Saint James's London S.W.1., printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles.
About the Editor
Table of Contents
- Foreword
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Introductory
- The Material We Have to Deal With
- The Church and Education
- Scouting
- The Boy-Man
- Religion
- What Scouting Is Not
- What Scouting Is
- Cadets, Scouts, and Guides
- Possibilities
- National Defects
- Suggestion of Work for a Study Patrol
- List of Subjects for Study
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I. How to Train the Boy
- The Failure of Education
- What the Boy Scout Training is doing in the Meantime
- The Scoutmaster’s Share
- The Boy
- Environment
- Club and Camp
- The Scoutmaster’s Duty
- Loyalty to the Movement
- Programme for Study Patrol
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II. Character
- Character Training Through Scouting
- One Reason Why a Troop Should not Exceed 32
- Character
- (b) Sense of Honour
- (e) Self-Reliance
- (f) Intelligence
- (g) Enjoyment of Life
- Programme for Study Patrol
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III. Health and Physical Development
- C3 Men and an Ai Empire
- Rifle Practice
- Physical Development Drill
- Health and Hygiene
- Programme for Study Patrol
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IV. Making a Career
- The Scoutmaster’s Share
- The Necessary Qualities for Success
- “Pioneering” as a First Step
- Technical Training
- Employment
- Employment Agencies
- Industrial Ignorance
- Employment
- Programme For Study Patrol
- Week-end Camps
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V. Service for Others
- Development of Outlook: Reverence
- Self-Respect
- Loyalty
- Go by the Pace of the Slowest
- Selfishness
- To Eradicate Selfishness
- Fair Play
- Service for the Community
- Programme For Study Patrol
- Reconstruction
- The Education Act and the Boy Scout
- The Attitude of Labour Towards Scouting
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Appendix
- I. “How to Train the Boy”
- II. Character Training
- III. Physical Health and Development
- IV. “Making A Career”
- V. “Service For Others”
- An Example of a Week-end Training Camp (Held in 1914)
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