A Word to Patrol Leaders

I want you Patrol Leaders to go on and train your Patrols entirely yourselves, because it is possible for you to get hold of each boy in your Patrol and make a good fellow of him. It is no use having one or two brilliant boys and the rest no good at all. You should try to make them all fairly good.

The most important step to this is your own example, because what you do yourselves, your Scouts will do also.

Show them that you can obey Orders whether they are given by word of mouth or are printed or-written rules, and that you carry them out whether your Scoutmaster is present or not. Show them that you can earn Proficiency Badges, and your boys will follow with very little persuasion. But remember that you must give them the not the push.

Author

Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (Chief Scout, London, UK)

Date of Creation

1908

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