A Scoutmaster should frankly recognize that the adult aims of citizenship and
character are vitally different from the boy aims of pleasure and interest.
Only can the adult hope to effect his aims as he does so through the boy's
interests. The "train" of the adult program must "run"
on the "tracks" of the boy's interests pulled by the boy's
enthusiasm. Character and citizenship then may be expected as by-products
of what the boy does and thinks under leadership and association. to get
an ideal or an idea "into" a boy, one must have his attention.
The boy must think it and do it, not merely hear it.
The program of Scouting is essentially sound in this regard, as it develops
the boy through companionship and leadership in activities which interest and
appeal to him.
Any Scoutmaster departing from this Scout principle of the boy's interests as
a starting point, may properly expect difficulty.
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