Re: Scouting is a Game with a Purpose.

Here are a few quotations from B-P (from Aids to Scoutmastership (1919),
World Brotherhood Edition, 1947). While the exact phrase is not apparent,
the idea is certainly inherent in the words. And, I can see know difference
between these words and the aims and methods as followed since 1910 in the
BSA.

"The term "Scouting" has come to mean a system of training in citizenship,
through games, for boys or girls."

"SCOUTING IS A GAME for boys, under the leadership of boys, in which elder
brothers can give their younger brothers healthy environment and encourage
them to healthy activities such as will help them to develop CITIZENSHIP."

"THE AIM OF SCOUTING...
The aim of the Scout training is to improve the standard of our future
citizenhood, especially in Character and Health; to replace Self with
Service, to make the lads individually efficient, orally and physically,
with the object of using that efficiency for service for their fellow-men."

"THE ACTIVITIES OF SCOUTING...
By the term "Scouting" is meant the work and attributes of back-woodsmen,
explorers, hunters, seamen, airmen, pioneers and frontiersmen. In giving
the elements of these to boys we supply a system of games and practices
which meets their desires and instincts, -and is at the same time
educative. From the boys' point of view Scouting puts them into
fraternity-gangs which is their natural Organisation, whether for games,
mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipment; it appeals
to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active,
open-air life. From the parents' point of view it gives physical health and
development; it teaches energy, resourcefulness, and handicrafts; it puts
into the lad discipline, pluck, chivalry, and patriotism; in a word, it
develops "character," which is more essential than anything else to a lad
for making his way in life."

Yours in Scouting,
Lew Orans
Houston, Texas
lporans@onramp.net
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