Re: A Game with a Purpose? Help needed!

Looks like my comments created some responses, from two of the
people I respect highly within the Scouting Internet: Ian Ford
and Norman MacLeod. I definitely agree that all Scouting organizations
that want to be members of the WOSM need to adhere to B-P's ideals.
I also agree that the BSA adheres to B-P's ideals and the letter
that Ian refers to also supports that. I guess someone should point
that there are a lot of very good Scouting organizations out there
that are not members of the WOSM.

BSA Scouting could very well be called a 'game with a purpose' by the BSA
founders without B-P saying that it was a 'game with a purpose'. Tim Jeal's
book is very interesting but says so very little about the BSA.

As Norman MacLeod points out B-P calls Scouting a game in may places.
I cannot find where he calls it a game with a purpose. He might have.
But for a BSA Scouter this probably should not matter. The question was in
context of what BSA Scouters hear all the time....and we
hear that Scouting is a game with a purpose. As long as a
BSA founder called it a game with a purpose, why look to a quote from B-P?
B-P was a wonderful man who started a great movement, there would
be no BSA without what he did in the UK. The BSA was founded by
some great men who took what B-P did and moved it over to the USA
and gave it a unique US flavor. I still wonder why we in the BSA
sometimes talk more about B-P than our own founders. Probably because
he was so much more colorful than the administrators who originally
setup the BSA. To keep things in perspective we should remember
that he had no real control over the BSA, did not write any of the
BSA Boy Scout books or manuals, was not a founder of the BSA,
and was never a registered leader in the BSA.

Ian and Norman, as usual, thank you very much for your insights
and references.

YiS,
-bill

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"A NATION owes its success, not so much to its strength
in armaments, as to the amount of character in its citizens."
  - Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout Movement




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